Jake Shankman
Lead Software Engineer at Appian
Vienna, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Shankman is a Lead Software Engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in Site Reliability Engineering, performance optimization, and vector-based data processing. Based in Vienna, VA, he has progressed through multiple engineering roles at Appian, driving platform reliability, building data pipelines with Kafka, and creating self-service, outageless features for critical user workflows. Jake combines hands-on incident remediation tooling with legacy API performance improvements and new auditing/analytics services that modernized data processing. He is passionate about empowering teams through software and digital transformation, often focusing on measurable program performance gains. An early background in semantic search and streaming data from internships at Accenture Federal Services informs his pragmatic approach to large-scale data problems. Colleagues describe him as a dependable technical leader who pairs SRE rigor with an appetite for efficient, auditable systems.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
TJ Diploma, TJ Diploma at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and TechnologyBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Virginia
Github Skills (11)
kdb6
intellij6
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intellij-plugin6
intellij-idea5
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intellij-platform3
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jekyll2
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jshankman/Artificial-Intelligence
Oct 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 2 pushes in 4 months
jshankman/Automatic-Music-Transcription
Sep 2013 - Oct 2014
Contributions:3 commits in 1 year 1 month
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