Raymond 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.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Sidwell Friends School
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer and Systems Engineering & Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer and Systems Engineering & Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Bachelorās Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelorās Degree Computer Engineering at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
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