Jake Strauss
Senior Backend Software Engineer at Atlassian
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJake Strauss is a Senior Backend Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable, customer-facing systems and data pipelines, currently based in Seattle and working at Atlassian. He previously designed and shipped features at Amazon for Alexa Shopping and Marketplace, where he led end-to-end testing, data pipeline encryption, and scaling for peak traffic. Jake spans full-stack concerns—from VUI/GUI integration with Alexa Presentation Language to backend services that improved delivery date accuracy and Prime eligibility. He brings practical security and operational thinking to feature development, having overhauled pipelines to secure customer data and championed testing strategies. A UNC Chapel Hill CS graduate with a biology minor, he combines analytical rigor from research roles with hands-on engineering across cloud and embedded projects. Colleagues know him as a domain expert and mentor who turns complex requirements into reliable, production-ready software.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Northwest Guilford High SchoolB.S. Computer Science Minor in Biology, B.S. Computer Science Minor in Biology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (4)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jakestrauss/upskill_saas_tutorial
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:47 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
jakestrauss/NewMusicFinder
Jul 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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