Jesse Lax
Software Engineer at Oso
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJesse Lax is a software engineer with five years of experience blending data and engineering to modernize financial and consumer products, most recently helping streamline mortgage workflows at Better.com and now contributing at Pinecone and Oso. Trained in both Economics and Engineering at Swarthmore, Jesse moves comfortably between data analysis and production software, having started in analytics roles at Nanit and Candid before shifting into engineering. He focuses on turning messy datasets into reliable, production-ready systems and authorization tooling, bringing a pragmatic, product-oriented approach to backend challenges. Based in New York, he pairs startup experience with a curious, cross-disciplinary perspective—evidenced by a GitHub handle tied to Oso and a history of shipping end-to-end data-driven features.
5 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at George SchoolHonors Economics and Honors Engineering, Honors Economics and Honors Engineering at Swarthmore College
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Github Skills (42)
rbac10
authentication10
rbac-authorization10
logic-programming10
authorization10
oso10
abac10
java9
security9
ruby9
python9
access-control9
nodejs9
rust9
transform9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
laxjesse/dbt
Oct 2021 - Mar 2022
dbt (data build tool) enables data analysts and engineers to transform their data using the same practices that software engineers use to build applications.
Contributions:3 pushes in 4 months
datawarehouseanalytics-engineeringtransformanalystssql
laxjesse/async-sqlite
May 2024 - May 2024
A Rust library to interact with sqlite from an async context.
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 18 days
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