Jake Narkizian
Software Engineer at YouTube
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Narkizian is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable systems across major tech companies in the Bay Area, currently contributing at YouTube after earlier engineering roles at Google and Twilio. He brings deep backend and infrastructure expertise informed by work on Toil at the UCSC Genomics Institute, where he helped enable reproducible, large-scale biomedical data workflows. Comfortable moving between research-adjacent open-source projects and production services, he has a track record of delivering reliable, high-throughput systems at scale. Based in San Francisco with a CS degree from UC Santa Cruz, Jake blends rigorous engineering practices with practical product focus and a demonstrated interest in data-intensive pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
English
Github Skills (26)
kubernetes10
slurm10
python10
linux10
gridengine10
pure-python10
workflow-description-language10
aws10
common-workflow-language10
pipeline10
wdl10
scalable10
cross-platform9
mesos9
workflow-engine9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
JakeNarkizian/sound-send
Oct 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:59 PRs, 35 pushes, 23 branches in 3 months
ios-appbroadcastaudioswiftios
JakeNarkizian/jakenarkizian.github.com
Nov 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 58 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
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