Jacob Hesch
Co-Founder at Stealth
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Hesch is a hands-on technology leader and two-time co-founder with 14 years of experience building and scaling distributed systems and high-performing engineering teams from early startups to larger product organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has led engineering at companies like Hyperseed and Nextdoor, served as CTO at Muxgram, and previously shipped core infrastructure and product integrations during a seven-year tenure at Google. Equally comfortable in strategic and tactical roles, Jacob moves between founding-stage ambiguity and production-grade reliability, with a track record of launching products, integrations and internal developer tools. He pairs a CS degree and German studies with international experience (including time in Germany), reflecting both technical depth and cross-cultural communication skills. Now as a Stealth co-founder, he’s focused on turning complex distributed challenges into pragmatic, scalable solutions.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Universität WürzburgBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at The University of New Mexico
German
Github Skills (14)
ethernet5
release-management4
golang3
gocd3
continuous-deployment1
facilities1
kubernetes1
gerrit1
rrdtool1
devops1
nginx1
continuous-delivery1
docker1
graphing1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jhesch/integra
Feb 2017 - Jun 2021
Go library and web server to communicate with Integra (or Onkyo) A/V receivers using the Integra Serial Control Protocol over Ethernet (eISCP)
Contributions:37 commits, 1 push in 4 years 3 months
golangserialweb-servercommunicatego-library
jhesch/chatbots
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:83 PRs, 83 pushes, 82 branches in 1 month
chatbotchatbots
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