Summary
Jacob Hite is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience building payments and blockchain systems, currently driving engineering at Run Payments from Raleigh, NC. He blends hands-on development with technical consulting, having taught blockchain curriculum at ChainShot and led engineering at OmiseGO on projects focused on financial transparency and access. His background spans early roles at Amazon, DoubleClick, and Google through to cofounding a machine-learning crypto trading startup, giving him deep experience across large-scale systems, low-latency services, and crypto-native architectures. Comfortable shipping production-ready software and crafting developer-focused learning materials, he often operates at the intersection of fintech, Web3, and applied ML. Collected academic grounding from University of Colorado Boulder and Columbia informs a pragmatic engineering style that favors auditable, transparent systems.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS of Computer Science Computer Science, BS of Computer Science Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
Alchemy University
Columbia University