Jake Ellowitz
Co-Founder at Termina
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Ellowitz is a founder and technology leader who blends PhD-level quantitative rigor with hands-on engineering to build AI-driven product engagement models and the high-performance infrastructure that evaluates them. As Co-Founder of Termina and Partner & CTO at Tribe Capital, he translates deep domain knowledge from companies like Facebook, Slack, and Bridgewater into tools that let private markets investors quantitatively benchmark early-stage product and financial traction. He has 11 years of experience spanning investment engineering, data science, and startup operating roles, and serves on multiple boards and as an active investor in global growth-stage companies. Jake’s open-source contributions include backend work on the well-known 0x protocol monorepo, reflecting practical expertise in data pipelines, schema migrations, and token metadata systems. Based in Mountain View, he combines academic training in physics with product-focused AI to make previously "dark art" investment signals auditable and scalable. Colleagues describe him as someone who turns complex measurement problems into production-grade systems that materially improve decision making.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Physics and Mathematics, Bachelor's Degree Physics and Mathematics at Clark UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics at University of Chicago
Github Skills (15)
hex10
data-pipelines10
data-pipeline10
ethereum10
db-schema9
database-schema9
schema9
database-design9
schema-design9
typescripts8
typescript8
typescript-types8
typeorm8
postgresql8
javascript7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
0xProject/0x-monorepo
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
0x protocol monorepo - includes our smart contracts and many developer tools
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 13 days
Contributions summary:Jake's contributions primarily involved modifying and updating code related to trusted token management within the 0x monorepo. They focused on refining comments, adjusting code for pulling trusted token metadata from various sources, and refactoring parsing logic. Additionally, the user was involved in schema mapping for initial database migrations, creating database tables to support the project's functionality. These changes indicate a focus on data pipeline processes, which involves extracting, transforming and loading the data to the relational databases.
monorepoexchangeethereumblockchain0x-protocol
wakkadojo/pynda
Mar 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:111 commits, 97 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
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