Jake Heimark
Co-Founder & CEO at Costa Security
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Heimark is a founder and CEO with 13 years of experience turning ideas into scalable products, including taking a company from concept to IPO. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he has led teams across startups and major tech firms—most recently co-founding Costa Security after seven years building PLUS—and brings a pragmatic, human-centered approach to product and company building. His background spans product roles at Gumroad and risk work at Facebook, giving him a rare perspective on both user-focused product design and operational security. A father, biker and avid skier, he emphasizes people-first leadership and durable company culture alongside technical and business execution.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts at Brown UniversityMenlo School
Github Skills (31)
ai10
http-response10
chrome-extension9
adjustment8
calculator7
ruby7
gemfile7
specification7
homebrew7
crud7
macos7
ruby-on-rails5
array-comparison5
vscode-extension5
admin4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hmk/box-mcp-server
Dec 2024 - Aug 2025
A Box model context protocol server to search, read and access files
Contributions:4 releases, 15 PRs, 25 pushes in 7 months
costa-app/create-pull-request
Oct 2024 - Dec 2025
Contributions:1 release, 1 push, 1 tag in 1 year 2 months
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