# Ariel Jacobs

> Senior Software Engineer: Solving Hard Problems.

Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/arieljacobs

Two summers working for the Assistant Secretary of the Army, Financial Management & Comptroller. Further summer employment at Braze (formerly Appboy).
Currently studying Computer Science at MIT. Worked as a researcher at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT.
Experience developing with: HTML (5), SQL, .NET, Django, JQuery, Android, Windows Phone
Programming Languages: C#, Python, Javascript, Java, Visual Basic, Haskell, Ruby, PHP

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Development Engineer @ Draper
Jan 2024 – Present | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Posh
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Developed and maintained a significant Dashboard page that let users browse and filter their data, using TypeScript, Tailwind and Storybook. Benchmarked and optimized Postgres query performance to ensure queries were efficient.

Designed and developed a multi-service feature that allowed clients to set their customer support availability hours. Implementing this feature required augmenting a Python application, JavaScript backend, and React front-end.

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Cambridge, MA

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Cambridge, Massachusetts
Helped students master concepts of Computation Structures (6.004), leading four recitations weekly of 20 students, grading quizzes, and running office hours for students.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Braze (formerly Appboy)
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area
Developed full stack solutions for customer facing product dashboard. Included database modifications and queries, efficiency-sensitive server side application code, and customer facing feature and user interface design.
Designed, implemented, tested, and released link analytics manager, which detected links in email bodies, gave flexible user-friendly options to append analytics features to them, and modified sent emails in real time to the user specification.

### Undergraduate Researcher @ MIT CSAIL
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | MIT Stata Center / Media Lab
* Developed a Django application to demo Jeeves (a Python variant). Built data model and views for HIPAA information display.
* Developed HTML chat application using Crosscloud back-end.

### Intern @ Amdocs
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Researching the feasibility, and development, of a company-wide decentralized conference room management system. This included using Raspberry Pi to distribute computing to each conference room, in communication with mobile apps through a pub/sub server.

### Intern @ Atlascraft Development
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
Web design, development, and testing

### Intern @ United States Department of Defense
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
Improving the group's web portal.
Financial data retrieval, summarization, and analysis.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in General Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017

### Religious Studies
Rabbinical Seminary of America
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013

### High School Degree
Pacific Torah Institute
Jan 2006 – Jan 2010


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ariel-jacobs-42638320

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Last updated: 2026-03-22