Jake Zeal
Product Manager
San Francisco, California, Canada
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJake Zeal is a product manager and former iOS engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building consumer apps, growth experiments, and fintech/crypto products from San Francisco. He combines technical depth—shipping frontend iOS features, scalable networking architectures, and app optimizations—with product leadership as a data-driven PM who ran SCRUM teams, user research, and growth-hacking initiatives at companies like Zoosk and several startups. His background includes founding and shipping products (Human Up, Snapback Lovin), mentoring iOS students, and consulting on Bitcoin payments—bringing both entrepreneurial grit and domain expertise in crypto. Jake is comfortable moving between code, UX, and product strategy, having led user interviews, 70+ tests for Human Up, and engineered apps with sophisticated architectures (POP/MVVM/FRP). He pairs a psychology degree perspective with technical training from Make School and Lighthouse Labs, which informs his user-centric approach to product decisions. Notably, he’s a Bitcoin enthusiast who has taught workshops and integrated crypto payments in real-world businesses, blending practical adoption experience with product execution.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Psychology, Bachelor's degree, Psychology at University of VictoriaComputer Science, Computer Science at Make SchooliOS Development, iOS Development at Lighthouse Labs
English, French, Spanish, Thai
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (40)
bitcoin10
cryptocurrency10
cryptography10
staging9
firefox-addon9
gecko9
browser9
firefox9
p2p9
mozilla9
swift9
protect8
surveillance8
mass8
solidity7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jakezeal/SwiftExtensions
Oct 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:24 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
jakezeal/MnemonicSteganography
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:23 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
encrypted-datamnemonicsecurityadoptionencrypted
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.