Jacob Mcdonald
Staff Network Engineer at Google
Addison, Texas, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJacob Mcdonald is a Staff Network Engineer with nine years' experience designing and planning global-scale L1–L3 networks, currently shaping capacity, core/edge policy, and architecture at Google. He specializes in carrier-class optical and DWDM ultra long-haul systems (native OC-768/40G and 100GbE, system capacities >70Tb/s) and has deep hands-on expertise with Fujitsu and Lucent transport platforms. Jacob blends optical transport mastery with IP, Layer-2/3, and carrier Ethernet convergence (G.709 OTN, COE, EOS) to drive capacity demand forecasting, protection design, and large-scale network builds. He’s led geographically distributed engineering teams and created operational design and project documentation that translate complex optical designs into deployable global infrastructure. Based in Addison, Texas, he’s known internally as a “network magician” — equally comfortable debugging low-level fiber/link issues and setting strategic network standards.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Telecommunications Network Management, Bachelor of Science, Telecommunications Network Management at New York Institute of Technology
Github Skills (36)
keybase10
pgp9
end-to-end-encryption9
chat9
backend9
rest-api9
frontend8
cli8
database8
react8
go8
vue8
storage8
react-native8
k3s7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
yottabit42/gtakeout_backup
Oct 2019 - Apr 2021
Scripts to assist download, and automate deduplication and backup, of Google Takeout archives.
Contributions:27 commits, 4 PRs, 39 pushes in 1 year 6 months
deduplication
yottabit42/rslsync-jail
May 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.