Jake Poirier
Backend Engineer at Collective Returns, Inc.
Portland, Maine, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Poirier is a versatile backend engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building data pipelines, APIs, and production systems across startups and enterprise teams. He’s proficient in Python and Django and pairs that backend expertise with DevOps fluency—Docker, Ansible, Jenkins and Kubernetes—and recent work in data engineering with Snowflake, Kafka and AWS. Jake has led algorithmic trading and analytics projects, migrated infrastructure to cut hosting costs, and shipped mobile and embedded integrations from Android apps to PLC systems, evidencing comfort across the full stack and hardware-adjacent domains. Comfortable collaborating in teams and equally effective in deep, solo problem-solving, he chooses roles that stretch his skills and often takes initiative as an independent consultant. Based in Portland, Maine, he blends engineering rigor with a lifelong-learner mindset and a track record of translating complex requirements into pragmatic, production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering at Colorado State UniversityBachelor's Degree Biology Concentration in Ecology, Bachelor's Degree Biology Concentration in Ecology at University of Maine
Github Skills (10)
spark5
stream-processing5
hadoop3
big-data3
data-integration3
apache-flink3
peer-to-peer2
golang2
incremental-processing1
p2p1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
JPoirier55/docker_p2p
Aug 2016 - Mar 2019
Contributions:20 PRs, 66 pushes, 22 branches in 2 years 7 months
golangpeer-networkp2pcontainerizedpeer-to-peer
JPoirier55/HoppoRoo
Feb 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:30 PRs, 84 pushes, 39 branches in 9 months
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