Jacob Buys
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ABOUT ME
Senior backend software engineer with 10 years at AWS
Senior backend software engineer with 10 years at AWS
Hi! I've been building high-quality, high-performance web services and delightful developer tooling since 2009. I'm at my best when I'm tracking down obscure performance issues in complicated stacks, or finding creative ways to scale architectures beyond their original limits.
With a deep understanding of cloud computing and the container space born both from building the AWS services you use, to building on them as a customer, I can bring a unique perspective to your infrastructure and architecture problems.
In my spare time, I mostly do embedded electronics in C++ (PlatformIO/Arduino) and Rust. I'm a volunteer at my local makerspace, where I've built several automation systems and teach the Arduino classes.
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Joined September 2023
EXPERTISE
3 years experience
Primarily worked in Go on the Twitch Video-on-demand backend.
Primarily worked in Go on the Twitch Video-on-demand backend.
12 years experience | 2 endorsements
I've worked on many teams inside AWS, building up a deep understanding of cloud computing from the inside. Most recently, I worked on Ama...
I've worked on many teams inside AWS, building up a deep understanding of cloud computing from the inside. Most recently, I worked on Amazon ECS on the container scheduling system.
10 years experience
10 years experience
I've been building electronics using microcontrollers since I was a kid, and I've recently been building automation systems at our local ...
I've been building electronics using microcontrollers since I was a kid, and I've recently been building automation systems at our local makerspace. My current side-project is to build a local network only voice assistant to control my home automation.
1 year experience
I've been using Rust for my own experiments and projects in embedded software development for microcontrollers.
I've been using Rust for my own experiments and projects in embedded software development for microcontrollers.
12 years experience
10 years experience
REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS
(3 reviews)
Warren Hull
October 2023
Another great session delving through the little settings of load balancers and Elastic Beanstalk in AWS. Thanks Jacob
Warren Hull
October 2023
Perfect session. No wasted time. Thorough explanations and tips for the future of my project. I wish I had contacted Jacob sooner!
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EMPLOYMENTS
Senior Software Engineer
Twitch
2021-02-01-2023-05-01
In the Video-on-demand team at Twitch I had a broad mandate to improve the legacy infrastructure.
Through careful engineering, data anal...
In the Video-on-demand team at Twitch I had a broad mandate to improve the legacy infrastructure.
Through careful engineering, data analysis, and storage optimization I was able to save hundreds of thousands of dollars in storage costs.
Simultaneously, I co-designed, built, and executed a complex migration of a core service serving several hundred thousand requests per second, while maintaining the 99.9% availability SLA.
PostgreSQL
Debugging
Network Programming
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PostgreSQL
Debugging
Network Programming
Video streaming
DynamoDB
Video Encoding
Go
Software architecture
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Senior Software Engineer
AWS
2011-03-01-2019-03-01
Across my time at AWS I've
- migrated, scaled and sped up the build system that runs millions of builds a day, saving thousands of engine...
Across my time at AWS I've
- migrated, scaled and sped up the build system that runs millions of builds a day, saving thousands of engineer-hours across the company every month
- operated, debugged and optimized large distributed systems
- made the internal development tooling faster and cross platform
- launched new features for Amazon ECS
Ruby
Java
Docker
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Ruby
Java
Docker
Network
DynamoDB
Go
AWS
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