Jake Smith
Engineering Leadership & Career Coach at Self-employed
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJake Smith is an engineering director and leadership coach with 14+ years of backend development experience and a decade leading globally distributed teams to deliver high-scale platform initiatives. He has driven zero-downtime cloud migrations, rebuilt editorial content systems and identity platforms, and operated push notification infrastructure that handles billions of daily messages. Known for aligning technical strategy with business outcomes, Jake guides org-wide transformations through mergers, restructuring, and remote-first operating model design. He combines a security-first architectural mindset with hands-on delivery experience across data pipelines, video-integrated content systems, and payment/audit integrations. As an independent coach he now helps engineers and leaders navigate promotions and organizational change, while mentoring the next generation of engineering leaders. His early background in military intelligence and music technology gives him a disciplined, analytical approach and a knack for pragmatic, creative problem solving.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Music Technology, Music Technology at Oral Roberts University
Stackoverflow
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7answers
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Github Skills (156)
python10
pecl10
copilot10
jetbrains10
url-parser10
intellij10
pycharm10
boilerplate10
chatgpt9
fiddler9
mqtt9
home-automation9
cli9
developer-tools9
mojolicious9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
aolarchive/transformers
May 2014 - Feb 2016
Contributions:83 commits, 8 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 9 months
data-storenormalizing
jakeasmith/bump
Apr 2014 - Sep 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 4 years 5 months
semver-tagnaivesemverbumping
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