Jake Wasserman
Technical Account Manager at Pylon
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Wasserman is a Senior Product Manager in the San Francisco Bay Area with 12 years of technical and product experience bridging production engineering, developer tooling, and customer-facing solutions. He began in audio and live-sound engineering and moved through customer success and solutions architecture at Blend before shifting into product leadership and supercomputing roles, blending hands-on systems experience with stakeholder-driven roadmaps. A longtime open-source contributor, Jake has contributed to high-profile projects like rust-analyzer and discord.py and improved core GraphQL and Erlang/Elixir tooling, showing deep backend and performance optimization skills. He thrives on taming complex distributed and real-time systems—an uncommon through-line from live-audio rigs to voice websockets and supercomputing—and brings pragmatic technical judgment to product decisions.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Music Engineering Technology, Bachelor's degree Music Engineering Technology at University of Miami
Github Skills (44)
objective-c10
performance-monitor10
erlang10
python10
apidoc10
elixir10
django10
discord10
app-framework10
wpgraphql10
lua10
code-analysis10
opus10
performance-analysis10
api10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
discord/manifold
Feb 2018 - Dec 2018
Fast batch message passing between nodes for Erlang/Elixir.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 36 commits, 3 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Jake primarily focused on optimizing the performance and structure of the `manifold` project, which involves fast batch message passing in Elixir/Erlang. Their contributions include optimizing various components, specifically focusing on benchmarking different message-passing strategies, including `enum reduce send` and `do_send send`. They also implemented sharding, added hibernation features for processes, and made minor adjustments to the project's build configuration.
elixirerlangmessage-passingperformance
graphql-python/graphql-core-legacy
Sep 2015 - Feb 2016
GraphQL base implementation for Python (legacy version – see graphql-core for the current one)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 132 commits, 17 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jake primarily focused on optimizing and implementing features within the GraphQL core for Python. Contributions included optimizing visitor validation, implementing the `ast_from_value` utility with associated tests and refactoring code for improved modularity. The commits reveal a focus on improving the core language features and utilities within the graphql-core-legacy codebase.
graphqlpython
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