# Brian Jacobel

> Senior engineer building tools for performance, reliability, accessibility and quality software.

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/brianjacobel

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer II @ HubSpot
Jan 2022 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer I @ HubSpot
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022

### Senior Developer @ Axios
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Washington D.C. Metro Area
Expanded my contributions to the foundation of Axios' tech stack through ownership of a monitoring/alerting stack, a GraphQL service and a CI/CD pipeline. Made data-driven architecture and infrastructure decisions affecting services with more than a million hits per day.

### Frontend Developer @ Axios
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Washington D.C. Metro Area
With a small team, built a greenfield CMS and news media website using React and Express on AWS. Solved problems of design, scale and performance while contributing to a microservice architecture and building a team culture.

### Software Engineer @ edX
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Cambridge, MA
Working on edX's frontend platform team helping improve the customer and developer experience using edX's teaching and learning tools.

### Software Engineer @ Localytics
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Boston, MA
- Implement full-stack features on Localytics' data visualization and marketing dashboard, from UI in AngularJS to API endpoints in Ruby on Rails
- Rapidly prototype internal tools using emerging technologies like React and AWS Lambda
- Integrate with third-party APIs, including Facebook, AWS, Slack and Google

### Web Developer @ The Bowdoin Orient
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Brunswick, Maine
Full-stack developer of the Bowdoin Orient's website, bowdoinorient.com. Formal employment while a student at Bowdoin included responsibility of maintaining and expanding an in-house PHP CMS. Post-grad work has focused on transitioning legacy CMS to a Django solution hosted on AWS.

Technologies used include:
- Python / Django
- PHP / CodeIgniter
- MySQL, PostgreSQL
- AWS, Debian, Ubuntu
- HTML5, CSS3, SASS, JavaScript

### Web Developer @ Raizlabs
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Boston, MA
Full-stack developer at a mobile-focused consulting firm. Responsibilities have included building responsive web applications using Ruby on Rails and AngularJS, building mobile application backends using Go, Django, PostgreSQL and MongoDB (and deploying them to the Amazon cloud), and designing and developing REST APIs to power native mobile applications.

Technologies used include:
- Python / Django
- Ruby / Ruby on Rails
- JavaScript, AngularJS, Backbone.js
- Go / Martini
- PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB
- Ansible, AWS, Vagrant

### Teaching Assistant @ Bowdoin College
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014
My responsibilities as a Teaching Assistant for Prof. Oliveira's CS101 class include organizing weekly study group meetings where I assist students with Java debugging and class assignments.

### Research Fellow (Maine Space Grant) @ Bowdoin College
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
Worked on several collaborative projects as part of a student-led robotics team. Developed C++ data visualization and network diagnostic tools, and competed at an international robotics competition.

### Digital Technology Intern @ Atlantic Media
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Developed front- and back-end strategies in Django and PHP to serve over 30,000,000 monthly visitors on TheAtlantic.com, TheAtlanticWire.com, and TheAtlanticCities.com.

### Head Photo Editor @ The Bowdoin Orient
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
Managed a team of 10+ photographers, coordinated photography assignments with writers and editors, and edited all photos for the print and web editions of the nation's oldest continuously published college weekly.

### Network Operations Intern @ Bowdoin College
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
Working with the Network Operations branch of Bowdoin's Information Technology department, I surveyed and maintained wireless hardware across campus. This included an independent infrastructure location project in preparation for a total overhaul of the College's wireless systems.

### Research Fellow (Gibbons Fellowship) @ Bowdoin College
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
Worked on a summer research project with a Bowdoin College faculty member exploring virtual-machine based methods for combating control-flow hijacking attacks.


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Computer Science and Mathematics
Bowdoin College
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bjacobel
- Website: https://bjacobel.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-22