Jake Ralston
Senior Software Engineering Manager at FreeWheel
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Ralston is a Senior Software Engineering Manager in New York with a Ph.D. in Mathematics and eight years of industry experience translating advanced ML research into production systems. At FreeWheel he progressed from algorithm and ML engineer to software architect and now leads engineering teams, demonstrating a rare blend of mathematical rigor and product-focused delivery. His background includes quantitative trading at Bridgewater and data science training, which informs a disciplined, metrics-driven approach to model deployment and system reliability. Jake excels at aligning cross-functional stakeholders to ship scalable ML-enabled platforms and is comfortable moving between hands-on modeling, architecture, and team leadership. An analytical thinker with academic depth, he often surfaces elegant mathematical simplifications that reduce operational complexity.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics at Haverford CollegeDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mathematics at University of Maryland
Github Skills (22)
solver10
pulp9
machine-learning9
batch-processing9
k8s9
knative8
cloud-native8
mlops8
hpa8
workflow-engine8
gitops8
argo8
argo-workflows8
kubernetes8
data-engineering8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jakedaford/Shinyapp_Project_1
Apr 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
jakedaford/Scrapy_project_yelp
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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