Jake Smith
Founder 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
14 years of employment as a software developer
Music Technology, Music Technology at Oral Roberts University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (148)
python10
pecl10
fiddler10
chatbot10
dispatcher10
url-parser10
http-header10
normalizing10
ai-agent9
chatgpt9
javascript9
mqtt9
ai9
proxmox9
home-automation9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jakeasmith/bump
Apr 2014 - Sep 2018
A very naive script for bumping a semver tag in Git.
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 4 years 5 months
semver-tagnaivesemverbumping
jakeasmith/http_build_url
Feb 2014 - May 2017
Provides functionality for http_build_url() to projects without pecl_http.
Contributions:1 release, 34 commits, 4 PRs in 3 years 2 months
http-headerurl-parserbuild-urlfiddlercurl
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