Jake Olsen
Chief Executive Officer at Stratus
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Olsen is a seasoned engineer-entrepreneur and CEO with 11 years of formal experience leading product, engineering and field teams to deliver construction software and engineered solutions. He founded and scaled ventures in Asia and the US—building Powers China/Taiwan to profitability and later co-founding DADO, an intelligent document platform acquired by Stanley Black & Decker—while also driving patented product lines that have generated over $100M in revenue. At Stanley Black & Decker he transitioned from innovator to operator, launching software products like DEWALT HangerWorks and leading global field engineering programs. More recently he served as VP of Engineering at Binsky Snyder implementing operations-science-driven production systems before founding Stratus to build next-generation construction software for trade contractors. Jake blends hands-on structural engineering chops (MS in Structural Engineering) with product-led software building and deep domain expertise across homes, hospitals, tunnels and mega infrastructure. He’s as invested in durable business relationships as in technical invention—often turning field problems into scalable digital products.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Structural Engineering, MS, Structural Engineering at San Francisco State UniversityBS, Industrial Engineering, BS, Industrial Engineering at California State University - East Bay
English, Chinese
Github Skills (119)
multithreading10
fig10
autocomplete10
bash10
asmjs10
concurrency10
jsx10
elm10
emscripten10
shell10
cli10
typescript10
macos10
zsh10
ide10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jakeols/SwiftDDP
Oct 2018 - Nov 2019
A Meteor client, written in Swift
Contributions:1 release, 22 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year
meteor-clientswift
jakeols/ols-engineer
Dec 2019 - May 2026
personal site w/ gatsby
Contributions:11 PRs, 53 pushes, 10 branches in 6 years 6 months
gatsbyjs
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