Jake Heimark
Co-Founder & CEO at Costa Security
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
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 (12)
http-response9
ai9
headers8
gemfile7
chrome-extension7
overhead6
chrome6
natural-sort4
ruby3
developer-tools3
adjustment2
calculator2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hmk/hmk.github.io
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Contributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 31 pushes in 5 days
hmk/box-mcp-server
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
A Box model context protocol server to search, read and access files
Contributions:4 releases, 15 PRs, 24 pushes in 2 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.