Jacob Smith
Co-Founder & GTM at Groundworks Collaborative
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.
11 years of coding experience
MM Bassoon Performance, MM Bassoon Performance at Temple UniversityBFA Music, Business, English Literature, BFA Music, Business, English Literature at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (115)
bug-tracker10
lambda10
packet10
serverless-functions10
faas9
bare-metal9
golang9
functions-as-a-service9
network-load-balancer9
bgp9
svg9
paas9
k8s9
serverless9
controller-manager9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
datum-cloud/.github
Oct 2024 - Feb 2026
global github organization files / configurations / guides
Contributions:3 reviews, 12 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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
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