Summary
Jacob Schoen is an experienced engineering manager with 13 years building and scaling enterprise software across industries, currently leading engineering at Angi from his base in Metairie, Louisiana. He combines hands-on architecture and team leadership—having served as Senior Staff Architect at GE Digital and GE Power & Water where he drove offline-first field solutions, CI/CD adoption, and reusable horizontal services. Jacob has a track record of turning complex legacy systems into maintainable, high-throughput platforms (from converting large Excel pricing models to web-based engines to consolidating service pipelines). He mentors engineers into technical leaders, enforces pragmatic guardrails for large teams, and has led operations and technical strategy as a VP-level leader. Jacobs’ background in both hands-on development and cross-cutting service architecture makes him adept at aligning product, reliability, and delivery at scale.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at University of New Orleans