Summary
Jacob Gold is a founding engineer and product-minded builder with nine years of experience shipping distributed systems and developer tooling, currently scaling Graphite’s end-to-end developer platform from Los Angeles. He joined Graphite as the second engineering hire, created the Graphite CLI and VSCode extension to enable stacked changes workflows, and has oscillated between hands-on “AI engineering” and being the company’s first deployed engineer. Prior to Graphite he worked on critical messaging infrastructure at Meta, leading migrations and reliability efforts for Instagram Direct at massive scale. He holds an MS in Computer Science (Machine Learning) from Columbia and brings a rare blend of backend systems rigor and product/people versatility, often stepping into recruiting, sales, or community roles as needed. Outside work he’s disciplined and performance-oriented—evidenced by a 3:38 marathon and sub-11s Rubik’s cube—suggesting a focus on sustained execution and creative problem-solving.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Université Paris Cité
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Columbia University
Harvard-Westlake School
French, Hebrew, English