Jacob Weiskoff
Lead Project Manager at arXiv
Pearland, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Weiskoff is an IT Project Manager with eight years of focused experience guiding the technical evolution of arXiv at Cornell, blending hands-on systems work with cross-functional program leadership. He has deep domain knowledge of scholarly submission pipelines, TeX/LaTeX processing, and cloud migration planning, and is skilled in Perl, databases, and data science. Jacob has led complex migrations from on-premises to cloud-hosted services while running concurrent development and operational projects, improving QA, triage, and support workflows. Known for translating user support insights into technical requirements, he bridges editorial policy, developer needs, and API user tooling—often contributing Python examples and configuration changes himself. Based in Houston, he pairs institutional memory from a long tenure at Cornell with practical release and build engineering experience from earlier roles.
8 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Ithaca College
Github Skills (28)
python10
static-page10
login-page10
mkdocs10
search-ui10
flask10
documentation10
authentication9
jwt9
arxiv9
latexml7
auth7
scientific-publications6
elasticsearch5
html5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
arXiv/arxiv-announce
Jun 2024 - Jul 2026
Collection of functions used for the announce process
Contributions:12 reviews, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 years
arXiv/oaipmh
Nov 2024 - Jul 2026
handles requests to the OAI PMH service
Contributions:4 reviews, 1 push in 1 year 7 months
oai-pmh
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