Jake Solomon
Founder at Sunny Child Support
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Solomon is a social impact-focused product leader with 13 years of experience designing and scaling services that strengthen the safety net. He co-founded GetCalFresh.org at Code for America and later led product and growth for Fresh EBT, bringing deep expertise in public-benefit products and user-centered enrollment systems. His background spans research at RAND evaluating healthcare policy, hands-on engineering and deployments at Palantir, and current fellowship work at South Park Commons and the Agency Fund. Jake pairs quantitative training in economics and math with a maker’s instinct for practical, high-impact solutions that increase access to benefits. Known for blending research rigor with growth-minded product strategy, he’s drawn to creative approaches that make social services easier to use and more equitable. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he focuses on building durable, user-first tools that move policy into meaningful practice.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA Economics / Math, BA Economics / Math at Occidental College
Github Skills (68)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
codeforamerica/ebt-near-me
Aug 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:78 commits, 5 PRs, 6 pushes in 5 months
reactnationwidenearestmobile-appflutter
lippytak/ebt-near-me
Nov 2014 - Aug 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 9 months
reactnationwidenearestmobile-appflutter
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