Jacob Graff
Senior Software Engineer at Stripe
Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Graff is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable backend systems for high-throughput platforms, currently contributing to Stripe’s Business Insights team. A Columbia-educated systems engineer, he previously led GIPHY’s centralized moderation pipeline that processes roughly 500,000 moderation tasks per day and built hash-matching systems that automate reporting and prevent reuploads. He brings deep operational experience from AppNexus—designing congestion-control for Kafka forwarders and debugging production outages—and a track record of mentoring engineers and shaping architecture and sprint planning. Jacob combines a lifelong curiosity about computing (programming since age nine) with hands-on expertise in distributed queues, perceptual hashing, and media processing pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Columbia University
English
Github Skills (24)
pii10
image10
masking10
querying10
ffmpeg9
mixer9
matroska9
mp49
shuffle9
webm9
mpeg9
audio9
streaming9
multimedia8
transcoding8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jagraff/dotfiles
Jun 2016 - May 2021
Contributions:23 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 11 months
jagraff/jagraff.github.io
Jan 2015 - Apr 2025
Contributions:22 pushes in 10 years 4 months
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