Jake Livingston
Staff Platform Engineer
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Livingston is a Staff Platform Engineer in Portland with eight years of hands-on experience building developer tooling, CI/CD, and scalable cloud infrastructure. He’s driven major build engineering wins—migrating a C++ monorepo to Bazel to cut build times 50x and automating hundreds of build files with Go—while also designing internal dev tools and observability integrations at NetDocuments. Jake blends site reliability, automation, and testing expertise (Terraform, AWS, Datadog, SonarQube, Harness) with practical experience in serverless LLM pipelines that parallelized document QA from 110 hours to 1–2 hours. He’s comfortable leading cross-functional efforts, from scrum leadership and test strategy to training teams on custom tooling. Outside core platform work he prototypes game systems in Unity—shipping a narrative-driven title with nearly 1,000 plays—showing a curiosity for interactive systems and playable experiences.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Naperville North High SchoolBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Brigham Young University
Latin, English
Github Skills (2)
stream2
reddit2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jacobliv/narrative-slow-jam
Jul 2023 - Aug 2023
Game jam project for the Pigsquad slow summer game jam.
Contributions:13 reviews, 36 PRs, 40 pushes in 1 month
jacobliv/Swarms-Interface
Feb 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:34 commits, 2 branches in 3 months
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