Jacob Weiskoff
IT Project Manager at Cornell Tech
Houston, 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
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Ithaca College
Github Skills (35)
python10
mkdocs10
utterances10
arxiv10
flask10
documentation10
search-ui9
api8
login-page8
react7
elasticsearch6
jwt5
authentication5
scientific-publications5
latexml4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
arXiv/arxiv-docs
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
Help, about and other static pages
Contributions:151 reviews, 386 commits, 329 PRs in 4 years 3 months
arxivstatic-pagesutterancesarxiv-cein-production
arXiv/search-proxy
Jun 2024 - Jun 2024
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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