Jacob Cukjati
Software Team Lead at Nomi Health
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Cukjati is a software team lead with 11 years of experience building and scaling resilient backend systems, currently leading an 11-person team at Nomi Health to automate invoice-to-payments workflows using an AI-first approach. He specializes in distributed systems, high-availability infrastructure, and pragmatic DevOps, with hands-on experience across Go, Node, Python, Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud-native API gateways. His background includes driving audience-targeting platforms at WarnerMedia, contributing core HTTP and session handling improvements to the Gloo API Gateway open-source project, and building monitoring and configuration systems for enterprise networks. Jacob blends technical ownership with people-first leadership—mentoring engineers, shaping processes, and prioritizing a low-stress, highly effective team culture. Based in Austin, he pairs enterprise-scale delivery experience with a penchant for tackling tricky consistency and resilience challenges as systems grow. He often leverages practical experimentation with AI and observability to turn complex requirements into reliable, automated solutions.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BE Computer Engineering, BE Computer Engineering at University of Florida
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Github Skills (14)
api-management10
go10
envoyproxy10
api-gateway10
grpc10
http-header9
microservices8
microservices-application8
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
gcc6
c996
posix6
static-linking6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kgateway-dev/kgateway
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 348 reviews, 188 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to the Gloo API Gateway and AI Gateway project by adding and modifying code related to user session cookies and HTTP header settings. The user's work included implementing SameSite cookie options, adding default values, and supporting the Proxy-Authorization HTTP header. These changes involved modifying core API files and adding new enums and options within the gRPC framework used by Gloo, showing involvement in the core logic and HTTP request handling.
aiapi-gatewaycloud-nativeenvoyserverless
jlehman93/OOP-SpaceJam-Iteration1
Feb 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:157 pushes, 6 branches, 1 comment in 2 months
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