Jason Jacobs
Founder & CEO at Stealth AI Startup
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Jacobs is a founder and product-focused engineering leader with 11 years of experience building consumer finance and AI products from early-stage startups to Goldman Sachs’ Marcus. Now leading a stealth AI startup in San Francisco, he combines hands-on full-stack development (notably contributions to the popular open-source Continue IDE assistant) with strategic product leadership across teams and acquisitions. His background spans consumer fintech, e-commerce, and edtech—where he shipped products reaching millions of users—and he has a track record of founding and scaling communities and companies. Comfortable moving between React/TypeScript front-end work, backend database and indexing improvements, and executive decision-making, he blends technical craft with customer-focused product strategy.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSBA, Finance, Economics, BSBA, Finance, Economics at University of Miami
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
typescript10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
openai9
developer-tools9
database8
ai8
databases8
llm8
vscode8
visual-studio-code8
sqlite7
python6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
continuedev/continue
Dec 2023 - Nov 2024
⏩ Create, share, and use custom AI code assistants with our open-source IDE extensions and hub of models, rules, prompts, docs, and other building blocks
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 29 PRs, 25 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the frontend and backend of the "continue" project. Their work included implementing features related to keyboard shortcuts and navigation within the GUI using React and TypeScript. They also added a Database Context Provider, indicating involvement with database interactions and potentially backend development. Furthermore, the user refactored web crawling code for document indexing and updated the database structure, showing engagement with core functionalities and potentially some backend restructuring.
aichatgptcopilotdeveloper-toolsintellij
rootedbox/nullz
Nov 2018 - Jan 2022
Null Object Pattern Gem
Contributions:31 commits, 2 PRs, 33 pushes in 3 years 2 months
null-object-patterndry-rbrefactoringgempattern
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