Jake Byman
Software Engineer
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
Webflow
10.2024 - Current
- Engineer on the Developer Platform team, helping manage Webflow's public API
Software Engineer
Common Room
09.2021 - 10.2024
- Worked on ingestion pipeline, helping power the core Common Room event ingestion infrastructure
- Integrated dozens of external APIs into core product
- Built services to ingest and process millions of events per hour
- Responsible for building high-throughput services directly with customers
- Led design, development, and maintenance of Twitter firehose ingestion
- Designed and built state machine used to govern and repair health of integrations
Senior Software Engineer
Slack
02.2020 - 09.2021
- Collaborated with team to build and design roles system used by all Slack customers
- Designed and built projects that unlocked over $20M in revenue
- Guided team to experiment with different tools and architecture patterns
- Served as on-call incident commander for Slack-wide outages and major incidents
Software Engineer
Slack
08.2018 - 02.2020
- Created over 30 public APIs for largest Enterprises customers, helping them administer users, workspace, and channels
- Led team to build channel management feature, used thousands of times per day
- Organized successful mentorship program, pairing over 200 engineers across Slack
Education
BA - Information Science
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 08.2013 - 05.2017
Skills
Python
TypeScript
SQL
Hack
Go
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
Webflow
10.2024 - Current
Software Engineer
Common Room
09.2021 - 10.2024
Senior Software Engineer
Slack
02.2020 - 09.2021
Software Engineer
Slack
08.2018 - 02.2020
BA - Information Science
Cornell University
08.2013 - 05.2017