Kevin Jacobson
Principal Consultant at Hilltop Software
Youngstown, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Jacobson is a principal consultant and seasoned technology leader with over 20 years of experience designing and delivering fault-tolerant, high-traffic web and enterprise systems across retail, eCommerce, healthcare, manufacturing, and defense. He has held CTO and enterprise architect roles, led cloud-based ad-serving platforms that scaled to hundreds of millions of impressions per day, and driven large portal and ERP rollouts for Fortune-level enterprises. Equally comfortable in C/C++ and Java/J2EE stacks as in SharePoint, SQL/Oracle, and ERP integrations, he blends deep systems engineering with practical business process and reporting solutions. Kevin mentors teams, manages hybrid onshore/offshore development, and has a track record of improving performance, reliability, and scalability in both startups and large corporations. Based in Youngstown, Ohio, he also contributes to community tech initiatives—building vision systems and teaching code through a local makerspace—to help bridge the digital divide. His mechanical engineering background informs a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to complex software and operational challenges.
17 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering at University of Rhode IslandGithub contributions (2)
kevinjacobson/networked-p2p-whiteboard
Jan 2009 - Feb 2009
Contributions:23 commits in 29 days
kevinjacobson/schwaurtz
Feb 2009 - Feb 2009
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
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