Jake Pruitt
Head Of Engineering at Zoī
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Pruitt is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling platform and backend systems across Mapbox, Datadog, and Zoī. He co-founded the San Francisco Platform team at Mapbox and later led the founding Synthetics Continuous Testing team at Datadog, shipping roadmaps and systems that handle high-volume, distributed traffic. Now Head of Engineering at Zoī in Paris, he blends hands-on distributed systems expertise—APIs, data pipelines, cloud cost and networking optimization—with a people-first leadership style. Known for digging into gnarly technical problems with relentless positivity, he also focuses on operational resilience and pragmatic tooling to accelerate teams. A bilingual engineer-manager who moved from SF to Paris, he combines startup grit with enterprise-scale experience and a background in both economics and computer science. Expect a leader who cares for “humans and computers” alike and turns long projects into emergent momentum.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State UniversityBachelor's Degree Economics, Bachelor's Degree Economics at W. P. Carey School of Business – Arizona State University
Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/synthetics-test-automation-circleci-orb
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
CircleCI Orb for running the Datadog Synthetics tests on builds
Contributions:1 release, 10 reviews, 48 commits in 3 days
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jakepruitt/jakepruitt.github.io
Aug 2014 - Mar 2015
Github page for myself
Contributions:133 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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