Jacob Hann
Senior Software Engineer - Agentic FE Squad Lead Watson Code Assistant For Z
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Hann is a Staff Software Engineer in Oakland with eight years of experience building cloud-native systems and developer tooling, currently leading the Cobol2Java Backend Prompting squad on IBM’s watsonx Code Assistant for Z. He combines low-level systems work—authoring hypervisor drivers, VM disk encryption, and Go shims for libvirt—with higher-level API and LLM prompting design to improve mainframe code translation accuracy. Jacob mentors engineers, owns benchmarking utilities co-developed with IBM Research to accelerate iteration, and ships production-grade CI/CD and operator tooling across Kubernetes/OpenShift. Outside enterprise software he co-designs and programs an indie boardgame-RPG gaining festival attention, reflecting a rare mix of systems engineering, language tooling, and creative game development.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science and Engineering - BSE, Computer Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Science and Engineering - BSE, Computer Systems Engineering at Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University
Github Skills (9)
game-development8
sounds7
dialogue-systems3
angular-library2
angular-app2
godot2
stackblitz1
angular-universal1
angular1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hcphoenix/gameham
Feb 2022 - Oct 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 363 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
content-deleted/content-deleted.github.io
Apr 2018 - Jan 2026
Contributions:48 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 10 months
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