Jacob Brooks
Director Of Engineering at GoDaddy
Napa, California, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Brooks is a Director of Engineering with nine years of hands-on experience building identity, authentication, and authorization systems at scale, currently leading engineering efforts at GoDaddy from Napa, California. He progressed through senior and principal engineering roles to drive cross-team initiatives—most notably designing a next-generation OAuth-based fine-grained permissions platform using OpenFGA and coordinating identity work across 5–6 teams and 40 engineers. Jacob combines deep technical craft (from Kubernetes and AWS EKS infrastructure to bot detection and GDPR compliance) with operational rigor, instituting on-call practice programs, improved monitoring, and runbooks during major AWS migrations. He has a strong educational foundation from Carnegie Mellon (BS and MS in ECE) and a knack for translating business outcomes into pragmatic technical designs and partner-aligned delivery plans. Colleagues rely on him for cross-organizational coordination, having run leadership offsites, principal engineering councils, and office hours to break down silos. Outside of formal bios, he’s the kind of engineer who writes code that “sometimes even works,” reflecting a pragmatic, hands-on leadership style.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Sherwood High SchoolMaster's degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master's degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
English
Github Skills (102)
modifiers10
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game-development10
javascript10
game-engine10
pyttsx10
generative-art10
command-line-utility10
mermaid10
open-source10
flowchart10
sequence10
mindmap10
safari9
godot9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
JWBWork/MyDailyReport
Jun 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
JWBWork/tizen-settracker-flask
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
Flask backend for my tizen settracker wearable app
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 28 days
pythonflaskbackendtizenflask-backend
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