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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
Jake BymanSoftware Engineer