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I have an abiding passion for building products that delight the customer and am committed to helping create a culture of engineering excellence. As a full-stack software engineer, I build scalable web applications using Ruby on Rails, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, and React, deployed to public clouds such as AWS and Heroku. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams and delivering practical, high-quality software solutions.…I have an abiding passion for building products that delight the customer and am committed to helping create a culture of engineering excellence. As a full-stack software engineer, I build scalable web applications using Ruby on Rails, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, and React, deployed to public clouds such as AWS and Heroku. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams and delivering practical, high-quality software solutions.

Jacob Romer

Full Stack Developer, Cloud Developer, AI Developer, +5

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I have an abiding passion for building products that delight the customer and am committed to helping create a culture of engineering excellence. As a full-stack software engineer, I build scalable web applications using Ruby on Rails, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, and React, deployed to public clouds such as AWS and Heroku. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams and delivering practical, high-quality software solutions.…I have an abiding passion for building products that delight the customer and am committed to helping create a culture of engineering excellence. As a full-stack software engineer, I build scalable web applications using Ruby on Rails, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, and React, deployed to public clouds such as AWS and Heroku. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams and delivering practical, high-quality software solutions.

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I have an abiding passion for building products that delight the customer and am committed to helping create a culture of engineering excellence.

As a full-stack software engineer, I build scalable web applications using Ruby on Rails, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, and React, deployed to public clouds such as AWS and Heroku. I enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams and delivering practical, high-quality software solutions.

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Work Experience

Software Engineer at Tensor Conclave

September 1, 2017 - January 1, 2025

Designed and built an AI-enhanced sustainability analytics platform that ingests open civic data (e.g., 311 waste complaints, recycling tonnage) via a Ruby on Rails ETL pipeline, geocodes events with PostGIS, and computes neighborhood-level 'waste efficiency' scores. Integrated a Hugging Face transformer microservice for NLP classification of complaint text and visualized real-time metrics on a dashboard built with TypeScript, React, and Leaflet. Deployed containerized services on AWS.

ETL Engineer at Petco

January 1, 2018 - December 31, 2018

Built an ETL pipeline processing 100M+ records across distributed SQL databases using Python, Pandas, and Jenkins. Used parallelization and iterative benchmarking to satisfy SLA constraints, enabling the launch of Petco's first online booking platform, with 100% uptime.

Software Engineer at GitHub

March 1, 2016 - March 1, 2017

Developed production systems with reliability, high volume, scalable as first-order constraints; collaborated cross-functionally with product and design teams to align technical solutions with business goals.

Seaman Boatswain's Mate at U.S. Coast Guard

November 1, 2001 - February 1, 2004

As part of military service, developed a high degree of personal discipline as well as leadership, mentorship, and verbal communication skills transferable to collaborative, high-stakes civilian roles. Executed mission-critical operations aboard diverse Coast Guard vessels, emphasizing systematic troubleshooting and operational efficiency; coordinated teams under high-pressure conditions.

Software Engineer at Quip

January 1, 2021 - June 1, 2021

Contract work re-implementing Rails-based risk/reward engine and mobile API for a feature-rich productivity product; fixed long-standing bugs and improved performance and reliability for migrating systems.

Software Engineer at Bike Index

April 1, 2019 - September 1, 2020

Developed a Rails-based workflow to automate creation of branded images for stolen bikes, enabling production of assets valued at approximately $125K and supporting social media-driven recovery efforts.

Software Engineer at Help Kitchen

April 1, 2022 - September 1, 2022

Launched an MVP of a new platform in under two months using Rails, enabling restaurants to serve 10K+ free meals to food-insecure families; implemented multi-role workflows, real-time matching engine, and CI/CD pipelines in AWS-driven infrastructure.

Software Engineer at Blueprint Prep

July 1, 2022 - June 1, 2023

Designed and built an intuitive assessment customization platform, transforming a manual exam creation process; leveraged Rails and StimulusReflex to deliver a two-phase commit workflow, reducing exam creation time by over 70%.