Hey, I’m Jake — a tinkerer with a deep appreciation for the craft of building great products. I believe strong engineering fundamentals are the path to great product experiences. When you understand systems at their core, you can push past limitations and create things that weren’t possible before.

I co-founded thirdweb, where I led engineering as CTO, scaling the team and building a developer platform now used by thousands of projects, including Fortune 500 companies. Before that, I worked on mobile live broadcasting at Twitch: live ingest, A/V sync, low-latency playback. I got there as a founding engineer at Bebo, which Twitch acquired.

Outside of work, I’m usually dialing in pour overs, taking photos, or playing video games with friends.

Based in Brooklyn, NYC. Always happy to chat or grab a cup of coffee.