Jake Gold
CTO Co-founder at Clor
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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RockstarJake Gold is a hands-on infrastructure leader based in the San Francisco Bay Area with nearly two decades of experience building and scaling resilient systems for startups and large engineering organizations. Currently directing infrastructure for an AI-focused startup, he designs sandboxed execution environments, model routing, and real-time observability while owning container orchestration, isolation, and cost/performance tradeoffs. Previously he was a founding infrastructure engineer at Bluesky, where he helped architect shared-nothing datacenters and drove a 10x cost reduction for a protocol-driven social network used by millions, and he has deep experience in fleet and reliability engineering from roles at Nuro and Docker. Jake combines low-level systems expertise (OS tuning, networking, on-prem and cloud ops) with product-minded delivery, frequently contributing tooling and server-side improvements to open-source projects like the Bluesky social app. Colleagues rely on him to translate ambitious reliability targets into pragmatic, auditable infrastructure that keeps critical services running and cost-efficient.
3 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (17)
apidoc10
http10
go10
api10
echo9
json9
dockers9
docker9
devops9
compression8
gunzip8
http-header8
gzip8
compress8
headers8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bluesky-social/social-app
May 2023 - Mar 2024
The Bluesky Social application for Web, iOS, and Android
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 6 PRs, 22 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Jake made several significant contributions to the bskyweb project, primarily focused on server-side and infrastructure improvements. They implemented a Mailmodo integration with an API endpoint, set up Docker configurations, and added HTTP security headers. Additionally, the user refactored code for lex, integrated gzip compression for HTTP responses, and published Bluesky IPs. They also addressed the waitlist API by fixing a crucial JSON parsing issue.
androidios
Jacob2161/cgi-bin
Jul 2025 - Jul 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 21 days
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