Jacob Gold
Founding Engineer Of Graphite at Cursor
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolJacob 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
3 years of employment as a software developer
Université Paris CitéMaster of Science - MS Computer Science - Machine Learning, Master of Science - MS Computer Science - Machine Learning at Columbia UniversityHarvard-Westlake School
French, Hebrew, English
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Github Skills (51)
git10
python10
graphite10
stacked10
cli10
pirate9
shell9
package-manager8
macos8
zsh8
php8
homebrew8
prompter8
bash8
linux8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
withgraphite/graphite-cli
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Graphite's CLI makes creating and submitting stacked changes easy.
Contributions:2 releases, 465 reviews, 1172 commits in 10 months
workflowchangesstackedpythonstacked-changes
withgraphite/retype
Jun 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:4 reviews, 43 commits, 30 PRs in 6 months
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