Jake Cobb
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolJake Cobb is a senior software engineer with 15 years of experience building large, production-grade systems and leading engineering teams, currently shaping infrastructure and services at Google from Atlanta. He brings deep domain expertise in medical imaging and regulated healthcare software from his tenure at Varian, where he led teams to deliver C++ client-server applications, secure DICOM tunneling, and cloud-native deployments on AWS and Kubernetes. Equally at home in low-level systems work and cloud orchestration, Jake’s toolset spans C++, Python, Ansible, Linux, and distributed systems design, combined with hands-on security and networking experience. His background in program analysis and testing from Georgia Tech informs a methodical approach to reliability and automated workflows, particularly in safety-critical contexts. Known for growing and mentoring teams (scaling an org from 7 to 21), he balances engineering leadership with continued individual contribution on complex technical problems.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. cum laude, Computer Science, minor in Psychology, B.S. cum laude, Computer Science, minor in Psychology at Stetson UniversityMS, Computer Science, 4.0, MS, Computer Science, 4.0 at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (97)
messaging10
windows10
perl10
cpp10
concurrency10
io-uring10
linux10
stream10
cpp-library10
network10
pubsub10
networking10
swig10
jar9
rest9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sqltutor-project/sqltutor
Oct 2013 - Mar 2015
Contributions:295 commits, 2 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 5 months
jakecobb/swig
Feb 2017 - Feb 2019
SWIG is a software development tool that connects programs written in C and C++ with a variety of high-level programming languages.
Contributions:10 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 11 months
cppwindowshigh-levellinuxprogramming-languages
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