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 (30)
markdown10
cloudflare10
ipfs10
mdx10
cloudflare-workers9
cursor9
ide9
http9
go9
cli9
p2p8
public-suffix-list8
rpc8
typescript8
tui8
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/cloudflare-docs
Feb 2025 - Jun 2026
Cloudflare’s documentation
Contributions:18 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 4 months
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