After more than a decade in the field as an engineering leader and hands-on practitioner, I’m thrilled to be offering a consulting service.

I am a strong contributor in three areas: technical consulting, mentorship, and workshops & teaching.

Technical consulting

I love digging into tough problems in greenfield and legacy code. A few things I’m good at:

  • Raising code quality (tooling, testing, monitoring & observability, building CI/CD pipelines)
  • Big scary bugs
  • Process improvement
  • Internal/external communication and meeting/ceremony refinement
  • Refactoring
  • Complex feature building
  • Requirements gathering and story-carding
  • Pair programming, code reviews, and hands-on coaching
  • Technical writing and documentation modernization

Mentorship

I have mentored dozens of software engineers. I love listening and helping people get better! My mentees are successful software engineers across the industry. I can meet on your schedule and cadence.

Workshops & teaching

I’ve taught one-day workshops, spoken at technical Meetups around the country, and presented at international tech conferences. Topics I can teach:

  • Requirements gathering and story-carding
  • Test writing
  • Relational database design
  • Debugging
  • Reading source code
  • Shipping faster
  • Code reviews
  • Technical writing

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Why work with me?

Here’s what a few of my colleagues in tech have had to say about working with me:

“Jake brings calm, consistent delivery in chaotic environments and builds both great software and great teams through exceptional leadership and mentorship.” —Justin Savage

“He is a user-focused engineer who seeks out the most impactful work, pairing deep pragmatism with curiosity and a strong ability to teach others.” —Josh Branchaud

“He takes on highly complex features and makes them feel simple and elegant, while setting a high bar for reliability, clarity, and testing practices.” —Lyzzi Brooks

“Jake is an excellent leader and engineer. … His impact on our product has been enormous. … He created stronger processes, dug into complex product issues, and helped turn an unstable product into a much more reliable platform.” —Michelle Kiely

“Jake is a real leader who untangles tough technical challenges, ships quickly without sacrificing quality, and consistently leaves systems better than he found them.” —Jenny Kinahan

Get in touch

Interested in working with me? Send me a message and let’s chat.