Summary
Jacob Heric is a pragmatic software engineer with 15 years building and architecting production systems for early-stage startups and mid-size organizations from Portland, Maine. He currently contributes to Inngest while running his own consultancy, Jacob Heric, LLC, offering contract architecture and hands-on delivery since 2010. His background spans full-stack and frontend leadership—most recently as Frontend Lead at Streamdal—and deep Java/SOA, Linux, and infrastructure experience from earlier roles managing clusters, SANs, and enterprise web apps. Jacob excels at translating complex requirements into maintainable, secure systems and has repeatedly led simultaneous projects as architect and technical lead. Outside the obvious, he brings an operator’s perspective from years managing infrastructure teams, which helps him design pragmatic, deployable architectures rather than idealized models.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Arts at University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Southern Maine