Jake Goldstein
Member Of Technical Staff at Meela Inc.
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Goldstein is a Member of Technical Staff and NYU Tandon Computer Science alum with nine years of engineering experience across data and backend roles at companies like Flipboard, Vannevar Labs, and Mastodon. He specializes in backend and search optimization—contributing to Mastodon's account and hashtag search improvements and integrating a public status index for a high-profile open-source social platform. Comfortable across multiple languages and data systems, he has delivered production services, recovery tooling, and automated monitoring for complex data infrastructures. Jake pairs strong written and verbal communication with hands-on coding, having moved from internships and research roles into senior engineering positions. Based in New York, he seeks software or data engineering roles that emphasize learning and practical impact. An understated strength is his track record of improving search relevance and resiliency in both consumer and open-source systems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at New York University - Polytechnic School of Engineering
Github Skills (13)
ruby10
elasticsearch10
microblogging10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
ruby-rails9
optimization9
optimisation9
rails9
postgresql8
activitypub8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mastodon/mastodon
Jun 2023 - Jul 2024
Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 14 PRs, 13 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Jake contributed to the Mastodon back-end, primarily focusing on account search and index optimization. The user implemented changes to the account search functionality to use a text-based matching when opted-in, and prioritized username over display name. They also made modifications to the search service and account search service to handle hashtag searches more effectively and integrated a new public status index. These changes suggest involvement in improving the search capabilities of the microblogging platform.
social-networkwebfingerpixelfedhosteddocker
jsgoldstein/mastodon
Jun 2023 - Nov 2023
Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
Contributions:39 PRs, 168 pushes, 62 branches in 5 months
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