Jacob Haip
Senior Software Engineer at Formlabs
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Haip is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building full-stack web systems, embedded firmware, and tools for digital fabrication from Boston. At Formlabs he led and shipped production products including the Fleet Control system and the customer-facing Dashboard, spanning frontend React, backend Python/Go, C++ desktop work, DevOps, and cloud infrastructure. Trained at MIT in EECS, he blends research-driven curiosity—evident in past MIT Media Lab and CSAIL fabrication projects—with pragmatic engineering that moves prototypes to scale. He focuses on programmable spaces and tooling for making and seeing, maintaining an independent research practice (haiperspace.com) alongside product work. Known for taking projects from zero to widespread use, he combines systems-level thinking with hands-on implementation across hardware and software stacks.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, BS in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (36)
database8
scale8
visualization8
postgresql7
vega7
mysql7
dashboard7
slack7
data-visualization6
data-analysis6
clojure6
svg6
sql6
analytics6
fastest5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jhaip/programmable-space
Sep 2020 - Apr 2022
Bringing computing to the scale of a room makes it a communal and social experience.
Contributions:1 review, 683 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 6 months
bringingroomscalecomputing
jhaip/lovelace
Jul 2018 - Oct 2020
:octopus: programmable space at Recurse Center
Contributions:4 PRs, 1211 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 3 months
octopuscenterrecurse-centerprogrammable
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