Ray Jacobson
Member at Audius
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRaymond Jacobson is a seasoned engineering leader and CTO with 13 years of experience building large-scale systems, currently driving the next generation of decentralized music streaming at Audius. He progressed from software engineer to engineering manager to CTO at Audius, combining hands-on backend and ML infrastructure expertise with product-led leadership in the crypto and music-tech space. Earlier work at Google on Gmail intelligence and large data pipelines gives him deep experience in ML serving, metrics, and scalable data platforms. Based in Oakland, he blends academic training from RPI and NTU with practical systems work across startups and enterprise internships, and has a knack for turning research-grade ideas into production products. Colleagues would describe him as builders-first: focused on solving hard technical problems people actually use while hiring and mentoring teams to execute.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Sidwell Friends SchoolBachelor of Science (BS) Computer and Systems Engineering & Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer and Systems Engineering & Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteBachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Chinese
Github Skills (161)
muon10
app-startup10
dmg10
swipeview10
streaming10
opensea10
nosql10
snap10
linux10
nsis10
deb10
audio10
stream10
pkg10
playback10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
AudiusProject/general-admission
Aug 2019 - Dec 2022
Audius frontend gateway for proxying traffic
Contributions:57 reviews, 123 commits, 103 PRs in 3 years 5 months
frontend
AudiusProject/audius-hedgehog-public-site
Jun 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:1 review, 1 push in 2 years 3 months
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