Jacob Hayes
Engineer In... Corporate Development
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarJacob Hayes is a seasoned software and data infrastructure engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable pipelines, DevOps tooling, and production ML workflows across startups and biotech. Based in New York, he has driven major performance and reliability gains—cutting long-running data tasks from days to hours, slashing CI build times, and stabilizing multi-cluster Dask deployments—while leading cross-functional teams and mentoring scientists and engineers. As a consultant at Haystack he modernized payment systems, built secure IaC environments that passed penetration tests with minimal remediation, and developed novel ML-powered products like a podcast ad-blocking service. At Dyno and Replica he shipped robust ingestion and histology pipelines, influenced upstream open-source projects (notably contributing to gcsfs and Hera/Argo), and improved GPU/CUDA deployment hygiene. He blends hands-on backend, database, and QA/test-automation work with strategic product thinking, and often surfaces under-the-hood improvements—like smarter caching and test infrastructure—that yield outsized operational wins.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (32)
docker10
postgresql10
pytest10
python10
testing10
bash10
dockers10
google-cloud-storage10
bash-shell10
script10
workflow-automation10
fsspec10
postgis10
sh10
pip10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
postgis/docker-postgis
May 2016 - Feb 2018
Docker image for PostGIS
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 9 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily focused on modifying the PostGIS Docker image by updating the `update-postgis.sh` script. Their contributions involved adding flags to update PostGIS extensions in extra databases, incorporating an environment variable for custom ports, and bumping the PostGIS version. They also added dependencies like `fuzzystrmatch` and `postgis_tiger_geocoder` indicating an effort to improve functionality related to US Tiger Geocoder.
docker-imagepostgispostgresql
fsspec/gcsfs
Nov 2020 - Mar 2022
Pythonic file-system interface for Google Cloud Storage
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 6 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Jacob focused on enhancing the performance and functionality of the gcsfs library, specifically optimizing glob pattern matching for Google Cloud Storage. They implemented improvements to caching mechanisms, addressed permission issues for listing and retrieving object metadata, and fixed issues related to directory caching. The user also wrote and updated tests to cover these changes, ensuring the library's robustness and validating its behavior across different scenarios. Their contributions significantly improved the efficiency and reliability of file system operations within the library.
filesystemgoogle-cloud-storage
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