Jacob Smith
Senior Data Engineer
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Smith is a Senior Data Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building data platforms and production pipelines, currently advancing analytics and ingestion at Recorded Future. He progressed through multiple engineering tiers at the company, demonstrating rapid ownership of complex ETL, scaling, and data reliability challenges. A Brandeis Computer Science graduate with a background in robotics and embedded systems, Jacob brings a hardware-aware perspective to software problems—having co-founded a startup to simplify embedded development and worked on swarm-robot interfaces and vibrotactor prototypes. Comfortable across Python, C++, SQL and Docker, he blends practical automation with academic curiosity and a track record of turning research-grade prototypes into production-ready services.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced College Preparatory Curriculim, Advanced College Preparatory Curriculim at Baltimore Polytechnic InstituteBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Brandeis University
Github Skills (32)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jsmith2021Brandeis/ZumoAutomation
Nov 2018 - Jan 2020
A set of wrapper libraries for the Zumo32U4 classes, which will allow two Zumo32U4 robots to get better at playing a mini sumo game
Contributions:138 pushes in 1 year 2 months
sumorobotsplaying
BrandeisMakerLab/Robotics_ZumoAutomation
Apr 2018 - Jan 2020
A set of wrapper libraries for the Zumo32U4 classes, which will allow two Zumo32U4 robots to get better at playing a mini sumo game
Contributions:4 releases, 274 commits, 87 PRs in 1 year 9 months
sumorobotsplaying
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