Summary
Simon Jakesch is a Senior Technical Product Manager with 13 years of experience building enterprise software and cloud products from Rackspace to HomeAway, based in Austin, Texas. He combines a strong technical foundation with customer-driven strategy to spot market trends and translate vision into tactical roadmaps that scale across public and private cloud offerings. His background spans hands-on engineering roles through senior product leadership, giving him a rare fluency between engineering, sales engineering, and community engagement. Known for connecting disparate signals to uncover opportunities, he pragmatically balances product intuition with measurable execution across large, complex organizations.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer