Jacob Metcalf
Director at GRAIL
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJacob Metcalf is a seasoned engineering leader with over two decades of experience building and managing high-performance software teams, currently serving as Director at GRAIL. He combines hands-on Java expertise—especially with event-driven architectures using Apache Flink, gRPC, and Kubernetes—with a strong emphasis on automated testing and agile delivery. Jacob has led engineering organizations across financial services and tech, owning recruitment, architecture, and project delivery while continuing to contribute significant production code. Known for prioritizing team development, he creates space for engineers to grow technically and take ownership of ideas. Despite senior roles, he stays deeply technical, favoring pragmatic open-source ecosystems to accelerate reliable microservices.
12 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of NottinghamThe Glasgow Academy
Github Skills (8)
algorithm10
parquet10
javas10
algorithms10
avro10
filtering10
filter10
java10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
JacobMetcalf/travel-blog
Aug 2020 - Mar 2022
Parses XML and generates static HTML for travel blog.
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
JacobMetcalf/javafx-shape3d
May 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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