Jake Shilling
Digital Services Expert at University of Maryland Baltimore County
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Shilling is a Digital Services Expert and senior software engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native, compliant systems that emphasize modular, stateless architecture and functional monadic design. He has led technical strategy and infrastructure-as-code efforts—most recently architecting Terraform-driven deployments and securing an Emmy platform ATO at CMS—while also serving as CTO of an AI startup and contributing hands-on as an integration engineer. Proficient in TypeScript, Clojure, OCaml, Python, GraphQL and AWS, he removes blocking dependencies by enabling parallel workstreams that accelerate delivery. A former classical studies instructor with an M.A. in Classics, he brings uncommon rigor in communication and pedagogy to technical leadership, translating complex security and compliance requirements into practical, auditable systems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Maryland Global CampusMaster of Arts (M.A.), Classics, Master of Arts (M.A.), Classics at University of MarylandUMBC
Latin
Github Skills (13)
database-migrations10
associations10
activerecord10
database-migration10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
erb9
html9
sql8
restful-api7
api-design7
api-rest7
rest-api7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
arenadotio/arena-fp-ts
Jun 2023 - Oct 2023
General Utilities Built on FP-TS
Contributions:7 releases, 3 reviews, 48 PRs in 4 months
j-shilling/machulus
Oct 2019 - May 2022
Contributions:41 pushes, 23 branches in 2 years 7 months
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