Jake Demarest-mays
Senior Software Engineer at Atlassian
Boise, Idaho, United States
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Top SchoolJake Demarest-mays is a product-focused senior software engineer with 14 years of experience building full-stack systems and leading teams across startups and large enterprises from Boise, Idaho. He moves fluidly between frontend, backend, and infrastructure work, with deep hands-on experience in Elixir, Ruby, and Typescript and a track record of scaling real-time event systems and service-oriented architectures. Jake excels as a people-first technical leader—formalizing processes like automated testing, observability, feature flagging, and incident response while prioritizing the growth and goals of his colleagues. His work includes improving build and deploy pipelines for Kubernetes-based Elixir services, upgrading ML document-processing pipelines in Python, and shipping integrations and developer tooling that speed iteration. Comfortable stepping into CTO-like responsibilities, he combines tactical execution with organizational improvements that measurably raise team performance.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Mathmatics, Computer Science, Journalism, Mathmatics, Computer Science, Journalism at Fresno City College
English
Stackoverflow
185reputation
12kreached
2answers
8questions
Github Skills (172)
algebraic-data-types10
command-line-utility10
session-management9
javascript9
form-objects9
entity9
testing9
ember-cli9
fp-ts9
facebook9
entities9
functional-programming9
react9
console9
autolink9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
bravely/lolesports-api
Aug 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:37 commits, 2 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 month
apiruby-gemrailsrubygem
bravely/bravely
Jul 2020 - Nov 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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