Jacob Shomstein is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently driving platform and data-focused work at Etsy from NYC. He blends software engineering, DevOps, and data engineering to improve operational efficiency and decision-making, with hands-on experience building ETL, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud migrations. Rising through multiple engineering levels at Etsy after an early internship there, he pairs institutional knowledge of the product with growing ownership of scalable systems. Jacob stays at the bleeding edge by actively learning at conferences and meetups, and his playful GitHub bio hints at a pragmatic, code-first sense of humor. His background includes hospitality-platform internships where he integrated with Oracle Opera and AWS Glue, giving him a cross-domain perspective on operational systems. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Growing Infrastructure as Code repository to manage images, scripts and jobs for YACS
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Jacob Shomstein - Senior Software Engineer I at Etsy