Jakub Sobon
Staff Software Engineer at Google DeepMind
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJakub Sobon is a Staff Software Engineer with 12+ years building and operating large-scale network and distributed systems, now focused at Google DeepMind after leadership roles across Google’s infrastructure teams. He blends deep protocol-level expertise (CCIE R&S, Security) with hands-on software engineering in Go, C++ and Python to deliver high-performance, test-driven network stacks, load‑balancer testing frameworks, and workflow automation. Jakub has driven cross-team initiatives improving reliability and traffic engineering on cloud production networks while cultivating code readability and engineering discipline. His background spans running global IP/MPLS networks, datacenter design and security, and open-source projects on GitHub, reflecting a rare combination of carrier-grade networking and modern cloud software practice. An MSc in Information Security rounds out his focus on resilient, secure infrastructure that scales.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Information Security, Master of Science (MSc), Information Security at University of London
English, Slovak
Github Skills (77)
programming-language10
benchmark10
dashboard10
proxy10
accelerator10
interpreter10
performance-testing10
code-generation10
arduino-library10
cloud-native10
golang10
high-performance10
yang10
cli10
kubernetes10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mum4k/termdash
Mar 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:13 releases, 68 reviews, 882 commits in 4 years 10 months
golangterminal-uigobubblesterminal
mum4k/nighthawk
May 2021 - Feb 2025
L7 (HTTP/HTTPS/HTTP2) performance characterization tool
Contributions:250 pushes, 175 branches in 3 years 9 months
characterizationja3http3http2performance
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