Jacob Waller
Director Of Engineering at FleetPulse
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Waller is a Director of Engineering based in Chicago with nine years of hands-on experience designing and delivering scalable cloud-native systems, particularly in IoT, automation, and telematics. He has driven measurable performance improvements—cutting a core fleet telematics API from over 30 seconds to under 2 seconds—while leading backend work with AWS, Kafka, Java/Kotlin, and PostgreSQL. A strong quality-engineering background, he’s combined test automation at scale (including migration testing across continents and systems handling $1M/day) with building Generative AI proofs of concept using Azure GPT and AWS Bedrock. Jacob is equally comfortable mentoring teams and presenting technical solutions to clients, translating deep engineering trade-offs into business value. His profile reflects a blend of systems-level optimization and pragmatic automation, with a curiosity for prototyping hardware-adjacent solutions from his IoT and university prototyping experience.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Illinois ChicagoHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Edwardsville High School
English
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Github Skills (65)
telegraf10
telegram10
middleware10
robotics10
telegram-bot10
telegram-bot-api10
bot-framework10
nodejs10
driver10
automotive10
reverse-engineering10
azure-ai9
group-chat9
azure9
python9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jacobwaller/telegram_bot
Aug 2018 - Oct 2020
This is a bot specifically for use in the Chicago E-Skate Telegram Group Chat. This allows users to search for various things, such as: The next group ride, gear recommendations, and the weather.
Contributions:6 PRs, 204 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
group-chattelegram
jacobwaller/school-code
Mar 2017 - Jun 2021
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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