# Jacob Gable

> Professional software engineer. Amateur philosopher.

Location: San Carlos, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jacobgable

Creative technologist, amateur philosopher... Tech leadership with heart.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Brisk Teaching
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Building AI powered tools for teachers and students.

### Co-Founder, CTO @ Traktive
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
Building an all-in-one solution for manufacturers to manage their private rail yard logistics and operations.

Tech:
- Full Stack Typescript/Node.js (Next.js) for web and microservices
- Python, FastAPI, PyTorch for custom trained Machine Learning models
- Postgres, Prisma and pgvector for embedding storage
- React, Shadcn, Radix UI
- Inngest (Distributed event system)
- Microservices that ingest rail data from Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern, RailInc, etc.
- Azure document intelligence (invoice processing)
- HuggingFace/AWS Sagemaker for streaming LLM hosting
- Hosting on Vercel, Render and Digital Ocean

Management:
- Hiring, management of full time engineering team
- Product and design; MVP and new feature design, implementation and delivery
- Negotiate data agreements with class 1 railroads; Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern, RailInc
- Customer account management; technical sales, onboarding on-site with clients
- Investor relations; fundraising and investor updates

### Vice President Of Engineering @ Kraftful
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Helping companies build better products.

Delivering high throughput analytics event processing infrastructure, GPT-3 prompt engineering/analysis and maintaining existing products. Developing and distributing SDK's to most package management systems; npm, Swift package manager, Nuget.

Tech:
- Typescript
- Node.js (Next.js, Blitz, react-query, trpc)
- React
- Prisma w/ PostgresSQL
- Bullmq w/ Redis
- OpenAI; chat, completion and embedding API's
- Pinecone
- ChatGPT plugin; developed beta plugin with early access and one of the first released plugins available on the store

### Founding Engineer @ Kraftful
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Designing, developing and delivering IoT apps and infrastructure using Node.js (TypeScript), React Native and GraphQL.

### Staff Software Engineer @ Slack
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Growth and expansion related projects.

- Implemented Google login for new team creation flows; 4% lift to successful logins
- Created and deployed new linter to prevent keyframe animation collisions; #dhtml !important award winner
- Improved new team creation by unifying find/create team flows to reduce steps
- Various experiments around getting people into the app and growing their network
- Mentorship of Senior Engineer's looking to get to Staff
- Engineering all-hands presentation on project prioritization

### Staff Engineer @ Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto, CA

### Senior Software Engineer @ Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Palo Alto, CA
Continuing my work from the K-12 Education Initiative at Facebook. I build an online learning platform supporting Summit Public Schools and public schools all over the country.

Key Tech:

- Ruby on Rails
- JavaScript
- React
- Webpack

### Senior User Interface Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Menlo Park, CA
Front end focused engineer on the K-12 Education Initiative partnering with Summit Public Schools to build their online learning platform;

- Led the conversion from a server side rendered app to a client side single page app architecture
- Owned the front end infrastructure; webpack, asset pipelines, CDN
- Helped grow the engineering team from 4 to 20+
- Intern Manager
- Performed over 100 engineering interviews

### Creative Technologist / Front End Web Developer @ Sprout Social, Inc.
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Chicago, IL
Front end development on a highly scalable web app that aggregates social media channels for businesses.

Hands on with JavaScript, jQuery, CoffeeScript, Backbone.js, Grunt and Node.

### Consultant (Team Lead) @ Clarity Consulting
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Chicago, IL
I work on mostly HTML5, .Net MVC 3 Websites using jQuery Mobile and other javascript frameworks.  I lead a team of two other developers on projects ranging in scope from a few weeks to 6 months.

I also work on Enterprise Silverlight apps using WCF REST based JSON services.

I present on topics including Silverlight and JSON data services, HTML5 and jQuery Mobile.  I also write articles for our company blog; http://blogs.claritycon.com/blog/author/jgable/.

### Lead Developer @ Infusion Development
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | Boston, MA
I worked on enterprise WPF apps using the PRISM framework for large healthcare and travel industry clients.  Team sizes ranged from 10 to 50.

### Lead Developer @ Adaptive Infosystems
Jan 2005 – Jan 2009
Worked as a developer involved in all aspects of the project life cycle.  From meeting clients and writing proposals, developing .Net websites and applications, to deploying to remote servers.


## Education
### B.S in Computer Science, Philosophy
Western Kentucky University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jacob-gable-engineer

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Last updated: 2026-04-01