Summary
Jake Kreider is a seasoned software developer and engineering leader with 12 years of experience building cloud-native systems across startups and enterprises. He has led and scaled engineering and SRE teams—most recently managing Kubernetes infrastructure at Sprout Social—and helped bootstrap product and platform efforts as an early hire at Mastery Logistics Systems. Jake combines hands-on full-stack and DevOps skills (Python, Ruby, React, Postgres, Kubernetes, Azure/AWS) with practical hiring and organizational experience, having grown teams up to ~25 engineers. Based in Mahomet, Illinois, he brings a pragmatic focus on reliable, production-grade systems and developer productivity. A former director-level engineer who still ships code, he’s comfortable moving between strategic technical leadership and day-to-day implementation.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MS Information Technology, MS Information Technology at Northwestern University
BS Computer Information Systems, BS Computer Information Systems at Illinois State University