Jacob Nelson
Software Engineer at Suralink
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Nelson is a pragmatic software engineer with 9 years of experience and 6+ years focused on backend systems, currently building cloud-native services in Austin. He has repeatedly led cross-functional projects that standardize data models and cut integration work—efforts that unlocked multi-million-dollar ARR and reduced report generation from minutes to seconds. Comfortable across Node.js, Snowflake, AWS and Terraform, Jacob designs scalable architectures and operationalizes them into repeatable services that save teams months of work. He thrives in startup and mid-sized environments, translating product needs into unified schemas and fast, low-latency delivery for merchants and finance customers. A hands-on leader, he has a track record of mentoring engineers and turning complex third-party integrations into simple, widely adopted building blocks.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Information Systems w/ specialty in software/web development, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Information Systems w/ specialty in software/web development at Dakota State UniversityProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jmnelson12/portfolio
Jan 2020 - Jun 2022
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
jmnelson12/graphql-ts-boilerplate
Apr 2020 - May 2021
A GraphQL server boilerplate made with Typescript, PostgreSQL, and Redis
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 year
redisboilerplategraphql-server-boilerplatetypeormgraphql-server
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