Jake Braun
Co-founder Co-president at Kapok Marketing
Saint Petersburg, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Braun is a developer-entrepreneur with 11 years of professional experience who co-founded and now co-leads Kapok Marketing, blending hands-on software and IT skills with digital marketing and business strategy. He began programming as a child in the late ’80s and later served a decade as CIO/Lead Developer at Marco Polo Publications, where he aligned technology with corporate goals and managed enterprise IT operations. Jake has scaled ecommerce from zero to multimillion-dollar revenue, built niche social networks and high-traffic blogs, and consults luxury and local service brands on growth-driven digital strategy. He writes regularly, cohosts a business-and-marketing podcast, and leverages a Decision & Information Sciences degree from the University of Florida to connect technical execution with measurable business outcomes. Known for taking calculated risks—leaving a comfortable job to buy into and grow businesses—he combines practical engineering chops with a marketer’s eye for product-market fit.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BA Decision and Information Sciences, BA Decision and Information Sciences at University of Florida - Warrington College of BusinessMobile Device Certificate, Mobile Device Certificate at St. Petersburg College
English
Github Skills (31)
solver10
ip-geolocation9
geolocation8
responsive8
sendgrid7
ip-lookup7
minification7
optimization6
svgo6
asp-net6
nodejs6
asp-net-core6
analytics6
cli5
twilio5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kapokmarketing/Detection
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
Modified version of Wangkanai.Detection.
Contributions:1 review, 13 PRs, 26 pushes in 2 years
pytorchdeep-learningtemplate-matchingmachine-learningmodified
kapokmarketing/IpToGeolocation
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
A cross-vendor library to handle IP geolocation lookups.
Contributions:10 releases, 12 reviews, 31 commits in 1 year 11 months
vendorgeo-ipip-geolocationip-location-lookupip-lookup
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