Jacob Kaufman
Senior Software Engineer at Uber
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Kaufman is a Staff Android Engineer with nine years of experience building high-traffic, modular mobile systems for consumer and merchant products. He spent multiple years at Uber leading cross-functional projects across Eats, Restaurant, and Driver apps—authoring architecture docs and shipping features that touch hundreds of millions of users and power ~50% of cart operations. Comfortable in Kotlin with RIBs, Jetpack Compose, and Coroutines, he also maintains deep expertise in legacy stacks like XML views and RxJava and has full‑stack experience from React Native and Python backend work. Known for improving release quality through better documentation and QA practices, he has driven product launches that unlocked significant revenue and compliance wins. Based in New York, he combines pragmatic engineering with mentorship and a track record of migrating and scaling complex mobile platforms.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science and Economics, Current GPA: 3.91, BS, Computer Science and Economics, Current GPA: 3.91 at Brown University4.4 Weighted GPA, 4.4 Weighted GPA at Millburn High School
Github Skills (33)
kotlin10
android-sdk10
lint10
gradle-plugin10
detekt9
static-analysis9
sdk9
android9
linter9
react8
code-analysis8
redux8
ios8
react-native8
static-code-analysis7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jck2/react-native-twilio-ip-messaging
Oct 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
reactreact-nativetwiliosdksmessaging
jck2/rides-android-sdk
Aug 2018 - Jan 2019
Uber Rides Android SDK (beta)
Contributions:28 pushes, 7 branches in 5 months
uberandroidsdkandroid-sdk
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