Jacob Hummel
Solutions Architect at Databricks
Durango, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Hummel is a Solutions Architect and former data scientist with 13 years of experience designing and delivering ML- and data-intensive systems that prioritize performance, observability, and developer productivity. He has driven platform-level shifts—such as API strategies for multi-petabyte lakes, subsecond APIs for massive datasets, and proactive observability—while also implementing MLOps, CI/CD, and serverless migrations that lowered operational burden and sped deployments. Comfortable both as a hands-on engineer and strategic leader, Jacob has built real-time recommender systems, production ML tooling, and templates that enable teams to self-serve and reduce context switching. His background includes a Ph.D. in Astrophysics where he built scalable scientific tooling (gadfly) and ran multi-terabyte simulations—experience that informs his expertise in high-performance computing and pragmatic system design. Based in Durango, Colorado, he blends scientific rigor with enterprise-scale engineering to turn complex data into reliable, autonomous products.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astrophysics at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics at Truman State University
Github Skills (11)
simulation8
react5
linux5
javascript5
windows5
extensible5
macos4
flux4
electron4
astronomer2
django2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
hummel/gadfly
Jul 2012 - Apr 2016
Contributions:564 commits, 1 PR, 92 pushes in 3 years 9 months
analyzingsimulationhdf5modifiedsph
hummel/gadfly_paper
Mar 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:126 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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