Summary
Jacob Macinnis is a Director of Engineering based in Bristol, RI with eight years of hands-on experience building and modernizing cloud-native, serverless enterprise platforms. He combines deep expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, React and multi-cloud AWS/Azure/GCP architectures with a proven track record of scaling teams, hiring strategically, and aligning engineering work to product and business KPIs. Jake is comfortable staying technical—driving just-in-time architecture and participating in high-profile technical discussions—while also owning headcount planning, training programs, and cross-team process improvements. His background includes running a successful e-commerce business, which gives him uncommon operational and customer-facing insight into product commercialization and revenue-driven engineering decisions. Passionate about AI/ML and developer productivity, he regularly shares practical architecture and TypeScript guidance to help teams deliver resilient, maintainable systems.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering Immersion Program Computer Software Engineering, Engineering Immersion Program Computer Software Engineering at Thinkful
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Developmental and Child Psychology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Developmental and Child Psychology at Eastern Nazarene College
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