Hey, I'm Jake.

I'm an Engineering Manager and Technical Architect who ships at slightly-illegal speeds by pairing sharp architecture with AI-powered workflows. I lead engineers across the stack, run crisp sprints, and keep code quality high with friendly-but-firm guardrails (review SLAs, PR size limits, and real tests). I modernize platforms from monolith to TypeScript microservices, design scalable Postgres with RLS, build sane RBAC for multi-tenant apps, and wire the hard bits—auth/MFA, data sync, job queues, CDC—so legacy and modern systems play nice. Releases flow through AWS with feature flags, while Sentry and CloudWatch keep us humble. I partner with Product and Design to turn ambitious ideas into shippable reality, balancing speed with reliability and leading with technical excellence, empathy, and just enough sarcasm to keep retros interesting.