Jake Macek is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems across healthcare and e-commerce. He has led backend and cloud initiatives at Amazon and Walgreens, specializing in Java, AWS, containerized deployments, and microservices that improved throughput and reliability. At Cerner he delivered greenfield React-on-Rails and Java microservices that boosted analyst productivity and automated slow manual processes, and he has a track record of diagnosing tough performance issues using tools like New Relic and Splunk. Based in Seattle and currently on a professional break, he blends deep operational troubleshooting with developer productivity improvements—having cut test and environment setup times from days to minutes.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Kansas State University
Contributions:1 release, 7 PRs, 8 pushes in 18 days
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Jake Macek - Senior Software Engineer at Walgreens