Jacob Hann
Staff Software Engineer - Cobol2Java Backend Prompting Squad Lead Watson Code Assistant For Z
Oakland, California, United States
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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 (10)
gdc10
sounds8
angular-app3
stackblitz3
game-development2
angular-universal2
godot2
dialogue-systems2
angular-library1
angular1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
GDCASU/Color-Phase
Sep 2018 - Oct 2021
GDC ASU 2018-2019 project
Contributions:262 commits, 82 PRs, 168 pushes in 3 years 1 month
gdcasu
hcphoenix/gameham
Feb 2022 - Oct 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 363 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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