Jake Kinsella
Co-Founder And Lead Architect at ChaosSearch
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Kinsella is a software architect and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building and scaling distributed systems from startup co-ops to product-led companies. As Co-Founder and Lead Architect of LatentSpin and an engineering lead at ChaosSearch, he blends hands-on implementation with team leadership across streaming, search, and cloud-native architectures. His background includes end-to-end ownership—designing microservices and real-time pipelines at Threat Stack and launching customer-facing products and startups—demonstrating both technical depth and commercial instincts. Comfortable with technologies spanning Scala, Kafka, Flink, Spark, Elasticsearch, React, Rails, and AWS, he thrives where systems engineering meets product impact. Based in Boston, he pairs a Northeastern CS education with a habit of learning broadly and adapting quickly—evident in roles that moved him from intern to founder and lead within a decade.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Northeastern UniversityReading Memorial High School
Github Skills (41)
rest-api9
api8
rest8
swagger8
scraper8
javascript8
nodejs7
browser7
python7
openapi6
open-source6
typescript5
bluej4
robot3
aws3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
TheLocust3/full-stack-vm
Dec 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:138 commits, 115 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
TheLocust3/FRC-Game-Simulator
Sep 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:1 release, 68 commits, 36 pushes in 6 months
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