Jake Moshenko
Co-Founder & CEO at Authzed
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJake Moshenko is a serial entrepreneur and technically grounded CEO with 12 years of experience building developer-first products and infrastructure from startup to scale. As Co-Founder and CEO of Authzed, he leads development of authorization tooling inspired by Google Zanzibar and contributes hands-on to core backend features like secrets management, namespace storage, and revision tracking in the popular SpiceDB open-source project. His career spans roles at Red Hat and CoreOS where he scaled engineering teams, led site operations, and drove modern SRE and GitOps practices, as well as earlier engineering work at Google, Amazon, and Boeing on high-performance distributed systems. He combines deep systems-level engineering (real-time, C/C++, distributed services) with product and operational leadership, frequently bridging hands-on coding with strategic company building. Based in New York, he has a track record of turning prototype ideas (Quay/DevTable) into acquisition outcomes and shipping secure, auditable authorization solutions for other teams.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BSE, Computer Engineering, BSE, Computer Engineering at University of Michigan
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Github Skills (9)
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transaction10
go10
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database-design10
version-control9
test-driven-design8
postgresql6
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
authzed/spicedb
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Open Source, Google Zanzibar-inspired database for scalably storing and querying fine-grained authorization data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:317 reviews, 496 commits, 117 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Jake focused on implementing core database-related functionalities within the project. This included the addition of a secrets package to manage tokens, as well as the implementation of reading and writing namespace configurations with memdb and the addition of tuple writes. Furthermore, the user has been creating and utilizing a fully functional revision tracking system, including handling for multi-step operations.
ciamgooglegrpcfine-grained-access-controlcloudnative
quay/dba-operator
Jul 2019 - Jan 2020
Kubernetes Operator that orchestrates relational database schema migrations
Contributions:92 commits, 34 PRs, 15 pushes in 5 months
relationaldb2rdbmsrelational-databaseoperator
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