# Jacob Crofts

> Founding Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jacobcrofts

## Work Experience
### Founding Software Engineer @ Clarative
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Clarative helps third party risk and procurement teams detect vendor disruptions before they impact internal operations or customers. By combining synthetic monitoring with vendor-reported incident data, Clarative identifies SLA breaches, risk events, and cost recovery opportunities across third-party ecosystems. Built for teams that want to move faster, prove impact, and expose vendor underperformance.

Clarative is on a mission turn vendor risk into actionable intelligence and measurable accountability.

### Software Engineer @ Addepar
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ ManageMC
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Solo passion project, completed but abandoned due to lack of commercial feasibility

### Software Engineer @ LiveRamp
Jan 2016 – Jan 2021


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in English
Northwestern University

### Full-stack web development
Dev Bootcamp


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-05