Jacob Hollenbeck
Head Of Engineering at Littlebird
Renton, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Hollenbeck is a seasoned engineering leader and principal-level technologist with nearly 25 years of experience building resilient platforms and scaling teams across startups and large enterprises. As Head of Engineering, he combines deep systems and architecture expertise with a pragmatic focus on velocity, having driven company-wide micro-frontend, domain-driven design, and AI platform initiatives that produced step-change productivity gains. He’s hands-on across full-stack, mobile, embedded, and distributed systems—equally comfortable designing databases and shipping consumer mobile apps that powered over a billion dollars in transactions. Known for turning complex regulatory and product requirements into maintainable platforms, he favors engineering decisions that compound over time through clarity and leverage. Jacob’s background spans founding roles, long-term consulting, and large org leadership, and he routinely gets entrusted with high-impact, company-critical initiatives. Based in Renton, WA, he pairs mathematical training with relentless pragmatism to deliver durable systems under real-world constraints.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Applied and Computational Mathematical Sciences, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Applied and Computational Mathematical Sciences at University of WashingtonAssociate of Science (AS), Associate of Science (AS) at Centralia College
German, English
Github Skills (109)
esoteric-language10
ruby10
automation10
android-apps10
fastlane10
android10
ios10
facebook-graph-api9
syntactic-sugar9
programming-language9
cocoa9
firebase9
react-native9
world-of-warcraft9
addon9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
grioja/Then
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
✨ Super sweet syntactic sugar for Swift initializers
Contributions:1 release, 2 pushes, 1 tag in 1 day
syntactic-sugarsyntacticinitializerssugarswift
grioja/BigDumbLootCouncil
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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