Jacob Vorreuter
Software Engineer at Google
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Vorreuter is a seasoned software engineer and engineering leader with 17 years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, currently working on Google Analytics. He led and scaled critical runtime and routing teams at Heroku and Salesforce, designing production Erlang services that still route Heroku’s HTTP traffic and logs, and contributed backend logic to the widely used heroku/logplex open-source log router. Jacob combines hands-on systems engineering with people leadership—moving from solo operator to director-level roles managing teams of 30+—and has deep expertise in routing, logging, orchestration, and cloud platforms. Based in Ithaca, NY, he brings a practical focus on how organizations get work done and a track record of turning experimental architecture into hardened, enterprise-ready products.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at New York University
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Github Skills (5)
api10
erlang10
apidoc10
redis10
distributed-systems9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
heroku/logplex
Nov 2010 - Mar 2013
[DEPRECATED] Heroku log router
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:513 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jacob focused on developing the backend logic for the Heroku log router. Their contributions included adding core components in Erlang, integrating with Redis, and defining API endpoints for creating channels and tokens. Further work involved implementing session management features and adding support for drain management.
herokurouter
jkvor/heroku-routing
Jan 2011 - Oct 2012
Contributions:12 commits in 1 year 8 months
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