Jacob – Python, Django, FastAPI

Fintech platform for managing accounting, tax, payroll, and HR services with distributed finance teams.

• Led a ~50-person organization spanning engineering, data, and IT, owning technical strategy and execution for the business;
• Planned and executed a workforce reduction as part of broader restructuring, preserving global presence and aligning headcount to new product strategy;
• Restructured engineering into a globally distributed organization, building out a new LATAM team from the ground up;
• Shifted engineering culture from maintenance-only operations toward new product development, establishing roadmaps and ownership models for greenfield initiatives;
• Owned and allocated a $2M+ annual technology budget across infrastructure, tooling, and headcount.

An on-device update daemon for multi-client control and visibility of secure, atomic updates, as well as accompanying client-side tooling.

• Utilized Yocto and Bitbake to build custom kernels and images for purpose-built devices in the Smart Agriculture field;
• Owned OTA update infrastructure for a fleet of agricultural devices, enabling remote deployment of kernel and application updates without field service visits;
• Built a hardware abstraction layer that decoupled application code from underlying hardware, allowing the same application binary to run across multiple board variants and reducing bring-up time for new hardware;
• Designed CI/CD pipelines that gave the release team visibility into build status, dependency conflicts, and deployment readiness across 6 device targets;
• Wrote and amended Linux device drivers for GPIO, SPI, and network devices to integrate new hardware into existing platforms;
• Built distributed middleware in Rust and Python, coordinating updates and telemetry across on-device services;
• Built Tokio and Axum async HTTP API flows with custom authentication;
• Implemented fetching functionality via HTTP and FTP;
• Built background installation management and communication via channels;
• Optimized the daemon for low system load and constrained storage and memory contexts.

Data pipeline framework for processing diverse data sources to support freight bill auditing.

• Served as Team Lead, prioritizing work across multiple developers and coordinating project delivery;
• Designed and implemented the core data processing engine and framework, reducing client onboarding time and improving data reliability.

Research engineer, contributing to projects from bench-scale research to prototype development.

• Worked on development, analysis, experiment design, and reporting of SBIR and STTR projects;
• Adhered to ITAR controls, and wrote and assisted with technical reports and Phase I/II proposals;
• Drove and aided the construction and assembly of bench- and pilot-scale apparatuses, as well as decommissioning after testing;
• Modified existing SCADA software for use with different appliances and instruments;
• Pioneered Python-based data analysis and visualization scripts and shared them with other engineers.