Jake Larson
Senior Engineering Manager - Martech Adtech at Ahold Delhaize
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolJake Larson is a senior engineering manager based in Chicago with 13 years of experience building and scaling marketing technology and adtech platforms. He has led cross-functional teams to modernize attribution, analytics, and deployment pipelines across web, mobile, email, OTT, and linear channels, driving measurable improvements in site performance, uptime, and cost efficiency. At M1 he grew and structured teams, migrated critical infrastructure to enterprise hosting, and automated reporting and compliance workflows to reduce manual effort by orders of magnitude. Now leading Martech/Adtech engineering at Ahold Delhaize, he combines hands-on engineering judgment with strategic vendor and data-platform decisions. An active contributor to front-end open source (notably enhancements to airbnb/react-sketchapp), he brings a practical mix of UI, backend integration, and data pipeline experience. His background in both agency and enterprise environments gives him a rare fluency in delivering marketer-friendly technical solutions at scale.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Managment Information Systems, BS Managment Information Systems at Milwaukee School of Engineering
Github Skills (4)
sketch10
react10
javascript10
ui-design8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
airbnb/react-sketchapp
Oct 2017 - Jan 2018
render React components to Sketch ⚛️💎
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 10 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jake focused on enhancing the `react-sketchapp` library, enabling features for rendering React components to Sketch. Their contributions involved adding support for multiple pages and artboards, implementing resizing constraints, and integrating Sketch library support. They also overhauled the layout calculation process using Yoga-layout, and fixed various issues related to text rendering and symbol handling.
renderreactsketch-appreact-renderadobe-xd
larsonjj/sketchmin
Sep 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:29 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 5 months
sketch-filessketch
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.