Jake Faris
Engineering Manager at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJake Faris is an Engineering Manager based in New York with 11 years of software experience and a decade of hands-on engineering before moving into leadership. He has progressed through backend and tooling roles at Datadog, Aircall, Condé Nast, and AlphaSights, shipping API rewrites, CI migrations, Terraform automation, and fraud-detection analytics. Known for blending pragmatic engineering with team mentorship, he has a track record of improving developer workflows and onboarding practices while partnering closely with users and product teams. Jake's background spans Ruby on Rails, Go, React, and cloud infrastructure, and he often tackles greenfield projects that reduce operational friction. An early CS tutor and adjunct instructor of developer-focused sessions, he brings a teaching mindset to building high-performing teams.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development, Web Development at Flatiron SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at Connecticut CollegeSage Hill School
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Github Skills (66)
npm9
code-documentation9
cli8
yarnpkg8
javascript8
campus8
flatiron8
activemodel8
adapter7
package-manager7
ember-addon7
emberjs6
ruby6
python6
react-forms6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
farisj/dotenvious
Jun 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:4 releases, 27 PRs, 55 pushes in 1 year 4 months
dependenciesruby-gemrubygemenv
farisj/dotfiles
Nov 2017 - Feb 2020
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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