Jacob Smith
Co-Founder & GTM at Datum
Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Smith is a founder and GTM leader with a decade of experience scaling internet infrastructure businesses from startup to enterprise acquisition. He co-founded Packet in 2014, helped grow it into Equinix Metal after a 2020 acquisition, and then led product-led growth and specialist sales integration inside Equinix to augment an $8B sales engine. Now reimagining developer and cloud-facing infrastructure at Datum while advising AI cloud and rural innovation boards, he focuses on bridging product, developer adoption, and customer success. His background in arts management and as a professional bassoonist informs a rare blend of creative stewardship and disciplined execution across marketing, fundraising, and community-building. He also invests through Humans of the Internet, backing early-stage open infrastructure and sustainability plays and offering hands-on operational guidance. Based in Southern Vermont, Jacob pairs entrepreneurial grit with a musician’s collaborative sensibility to help builders innovate on the internet.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MM Bassoon Performance, MM Bassoon Performance at Temple UniversityBFA Music Business English Literature, BFA Music Business English Literature at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (160)
serverless10
location10
lambda10
4g10
bare10
packet10
protocols10
landscape10
serverless-functions10
arp10
ord9
faas9
bare-metal9
5g9
golang9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
jacobsmith928/docs
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Product documentation for the Packet Bare Metal Cloud.
Contributions:14 PRs, 8 pushes, 10 branches in 1 day
bare-metalmetalinfinibandpacketbare
datum-cloud/.github
Oct 2024 - Jan 2025
global github organization files / configurations / guides
Contributions:2 reviews, 10 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 months
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