Jacob Poye
VP Of Platform & Founding Member
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Poye is a seasoned platform and developer-experience leader with 10+ years building and operating the technical backbone of fast-growing companies from startup to scale. As a founding VP of Platform at Skyramp and former Head of Developer Platform & SRE at Caffeine and Twitch, he has led Kubernetes/OpenShift transformations, end-to-end observability, and high-throughput video delivery systems serving millions. He combines deep hands-on expertise across cloud, CI/CD, and infra automation with advisory work spanning startups, VCs and the DoD, helping teams with cultural as well as technical transformations. Jacob’s background in building compliant, litigation-worthy systems for complex domains and early research experience in synthetic-protein diagnostics gives him a rare mix of rigorous process and experimental curiosity.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BSIS Interdisciplinary Studies, BSIS Interdisciplinary Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas
Github Skills (56)
thrift-protocol10
twitch9
docker8
rest8
kubernetes8
testing8
thrift8
specification7
go7
test-automation7
grpc7
cloud-native6
javascript6
xvfb5
scheduling5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
letsramp/helm
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
Helm chart for Mocker
Contributions:20 reviews, 214 PRs, 140 pushes in 2 years
letsramp/client-go
Feb 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:24 PRs, 8 pushes, 24 branches in 1 year
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