Jeff Jakub
Director Of Engineering
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Jakub is a Director of Engineering based in Austin with a decade of experience building and scaling engineering organizations from the ground up. He has repeatedly moved into leadership roles at growth-stage companies—Engine, Bestow, Square Root—and led teams through product and platform transitions across fintech, retail, and insurance domains. Jeff blends hands-on engineering roots (Java, REST APIs, integrations) with strategic management of cross-functional teams and delivery at scale. He is comfortable in both startup and enterprise contexts, having managed engineering workstreams at H-E-B and NetSpend after earlier analytics roles in healthcare. Known for creating structures where none existed before, he focuses on hiring, processes, and technical roadmaps that turn small teams into reliable delivery engines. Outside of obvious leadership milestones, his career shows a consistent thread of translating domain-specific complexity into pragmatic, production-ready systems.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Systems Management, Bachelor's degree Computer Systems Management at St.Edward's University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (31)
apollo-federation10
graph10
scale10
federation10
gateway10
graphql10
apollo10
interop9
javascript-interop9
compatibility8
specification8
javascript7
eclipse6
rust6
database6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jeffjakub/engineering-management
Aug 2021 - Aug 2021
A collection of inspiring resources related to engineering management and tech leadership
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
tech-leadershipinspiringengineeringengineering-management
dbanty/federation
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
🌐 Build and scale a single data graph across multiple services with Apollo's federation gateway.
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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