JAKEJERRARD

I’m a principal engineer with more than 12 years of experience building data intensive products across financial services and real estate. I’ve also helped build the technical foundation of a startup through a period of rapid growth.

I work wherever the problem needs me, from ingesting and modeling messy data to building pipelines, APIs, product features, and the infrastructure behind them. I’ve worked with hundreds of data sources and built platforms that process trillions of records to support real financial decisions. More recently, that work has included products and workflows built with AI.

I started out in biology, and that background still shapes how I approach engineering. I like being dropped into unfamiliar problems, figuring out what matters quickly, and carrying the work through. I dig into the system, test my assumptions, follow the evidence, and care a lot about building things well.