Mathew Jacob
Senior Software Engineer - Load Balancing at Cloudflare
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMathew Jacob is a Senior Software Engineer in Chicago with five years of experience building resilient, large-scale networking and cloud systems at Cloudflare and IBM. He designs and ships load balancing and private-origin connectivity features, and previously led efforts to productionize IPFS, Ethereum and Polygon gateways with extensive caching, redundancy and observability. Mathew has a track record of turning research-grade ideas into reliable services—evidenced by his Waiting Room work that helped schedule over 100 million vaccine appointments—and he’s comfortable across systems from Workers and Durable Objects to Kubernetes microservices. He mentors engineers, writes traffic simulators and implements adaptive rate limiting, bringing both operational rigor and pragmatic engineering to high-availability challenges.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Spanish, Malayalam
Github Skills (21)
markdown10
cloudflare10
ipfs10
cloudflare-workers10
mdx10
libp2p9
golang9
p2p9
suffix8
public-suffix-list8
blockchain8
ipfs-protocol7
go7
typescript6
documentation5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mathew-cf/go-ipfs
Nov 2021 - Mar 2023
IPFS implementation in Go
Contributions:7 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 3 months
golangp2pipfs
mathew-cf/public-suffix-list
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
The Public Suffix List
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
suffixfinderpublic-suffix-listpublic-suffix
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