Jacob Shufro
Staff Software Engineer at Backtrace I/O
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Shufro is a Staff Software Engineer based in New York with a decade of experience building high-performance, low-level systems for real-time and distributed platforms. He has driven scalability and latency-sensitive engineering at companies from AppNexus to Button and now Backtrace I/O, focusing on making complex infrastructure predictable and efficient. Comfortable across systems-level programming and distributed system design, he brings deep operational instincts for production reliability. Jacob's background spans both electrical/computer engineering and computer science, which informs a pragmatic approach to performance trade-offs not obvious from job titles alone.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at New York UniversityNone (Transferred), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, None (Transferred), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (126)
dashboard10
python10
grafana10
install-script10
elasticsearch10
home-assistant10
monitoring10
mqtt10
docker-compose10
nimbus10
data-visualization10
home-automation10
cli10
mysql10
rocket10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jshufro/smartnode
Dec 2021 - Jun 2026
The CLI package for Rocket Pool smart nodes.
Contributions:1 review, 14 PRs, 436 pushes in 4 years 7 months
poolnodesrocketcli
Rocket-Rescue-Node/rescue-ui
Dec 2022 - Dec 2025
Front-end for the Rescue Node ecosystem
Contributions:30 reviews, 122 PRs, 173 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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