Jake Puffer
VP Of Engineering at ClassHour
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolJake Puffer is a seasoned engineering leader with over a decade of hands-on software experience and 15+ years building digital products, now serving as VP of Engineering at Ad Hoc Labs in Los Angeles. He has led global application teams across mobile ad tech and growth platforms—driving measurable improvements in DORA metrics, IAM, API stability, and scalable web services at Liftoff, Vungle, and Scopely. Jake combines people-first management with deep operational rigor, mentoring distributed teams in the US, UK, Canada, and China while instituting processes that reduce lead time and failure rates. His background spans creative technical work for media clients to building ML and data pipelines with Apache Airflow, reflecting a rare mix of product-facing UX sensibility and backend infrastructure expertise. Colleagues rely on him to solve thorny technical problems and create environments where engineers can learn and grow toward long-term, reliable delivery.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Technology Visual Communication Technology, Bachelor of Science in Technology Visual Communication Technology at Bowling Green State University
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (123)
avatar10
directives10
nested-lists10
jsdom10
portrait10
hierarchical10
parse10
orientation10
scheduler9
validation9
dates9
python9
drag9
npm-package9
device-detection9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jpuffer/Gritter
Jul 2014 - Nov 2015
Contributions:9 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 3 months
notification-pluginnotificationjquerygrowl
jpuffer/device.js
Nov 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:3 pushes in 2 years 1 month
ios-androidorientationiosmobilefirefox
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