Tim Jacobi is an engineering manager specializing in security infrastructure, digital rights, and platform engineering with 12 years of experience building large-scale ingestion, reporting, and compliance systems at Meta and IBM. He excels where technical complexity, operational scale, and business risk intersect, converting ambiguous requirements into shipped, auditable solutions while balancing product, legal, and operational needs. Tim combines hands-on technical depth—having operated as tech lead and staff engineer on distributed systems—with people leadership: hiring, coaching, organizational design, and promotion pipelines that raise team performance. He has led multi-phase platform modernizations that improved reliability and data quality and has repeatedly stepped into product-management gaps to set roadmaps, metrics, and prioritization. An active contributor to open-source projects, his work ranges from backend WordPress integrations to improving React component test coverage, reflecting a pragmatic focus on maintainability and user-facing correctness. Based in New York, he brings a disciplined, cross-functional approach to building trusted systems where correctness and execution matter as much as speed.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at University of Hamburg
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Software Engineering at City St George’s, University of London
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at California State University San Marcos
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at San Diego State University
Enable Facebook Instant Articles on your WordPress site.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:19 commits, 16 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Tim primarily focused on modifying the meta box functionality and user-facing information related to Facebook Instant Articles within the WordPress plugin. Their contributions included updating informational text, displaying error messages, and adjusting the logic for determining if a post is eligible for Instant Article conversion. The user also removed some code related to article rescraping. These changes suggest an understanding of the plugin's core logic and user interface.
Contributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Tim contributed primarily to the testing and functionality of a React component library. Their work involved adding unit tests to ensure the conditional rendering logic works correctly based on various conditions. Additionally, they enhanced the library by rewriting parts of the component as functions, adding a test for functions passed as children, and correcting syntax errors. This indicates a focus on improving component reliability and maintainability.
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Tim Jacobi - Engineering Manager, SIEM SOAR, AI4S at Meta