Jacob Severson
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Favor Delivery
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Severson is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building and leading teams to deliver reliable, scalable products across startups and large streaming and media platforms. Based in Austin, he has progressed from hands-on engineering roles at Thomson Reuters and Disney Streaming to technical leadership and CTO responsibilities at Cinderblock, and now drives engineering at Favor Delivery. Jacob blends deep executional experience in distributed systems and product delivery with an operator's perspective from running a small company, making him as comfortable shipping code as shaping technical strategy. Known for moving between individual contributor and leadership roles, he brings a practical, delivery-first mindset and a track record of stabilizing and scaling complex services.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Minnesota State University, Mankato
Github Skills (106)
web-application10
saml10
authentication10
proxy10
spring-security10
terraform10
security10
jwt-authentication10
infrastructure10
logout10
reactor10
terraform-module10
auth10
grails10
terraform-cloud10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
JacobASeverson/s3-maven-repo-example
Dec 2016 - Mar 2020
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes, 2 comments in 3 years 3 months
JacobASeverson/tech-talk-spring-boot
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:51 commits, 1 push in 16 days
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