# Jacob H. > Senior Software Engineer at Cerkl Location: Cincinnati Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jacobh I am passionate about software development and building clean, efficient, and readable code. The world of programming has and always will entice me because of the never ending opportunities to learn. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Cerkl Jan 2022 – Present | Cincinnati, Ohio, United States ### Software Engineer @ Cerkl Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Cincinnati Area, KY ### CEO / Co-Founder @ Minute Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Minute is the journal that calls you. By transcribing your voice to text, Minute creates a frictionless journaling experience allowing you to easily track your goals, reflect on your day, or just talk. Learn more at tryminute.com. ### Software Engineer Intern @ SoftBank Robotics US Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area • Created and automated dev, staging, and production environments on AWS and GCP • Built entire component library from scratch using AngularJS and SASS • Implemented front-end features and bug fixes to the CMS web platform that powers the robot ### Digital Technology Intern @ GE Aviation Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Cincinnati Area, KY • Worked as a Product Owner using Agile best practices for an international team. Conducted user experience interviews on real users and translated their pain points into user stories in order to meet roadmap goals. • Documented and handed off to the development team: workflows, UI/UX changes, beta test results, validation rules, and new functionality requests. • Demoed App Accelerator functionality and roadmap to Senior Executive's at GE. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Cerkl Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Cincinnati Area, KY • Integrated Facebook’s API into Cerkl to automatically pull the user’s events from their Facebook profile and populate them within Cerkl’s platform via cron job that runs every twenty-four hours. • Integrated Eventbrite’s API into Cerkl's web platform to do a similar process to the Facebook integration stated directly above. • Designed/developed a new story, event, and need page. • Built a translation engine within our newsletter job that gets run over a million times each week. The user has the option to receive their newsletter in 123 different languages. • Overhauled Aptly, a product within Cerkl, that brings the interest-based personalization your audience enjoys to your own company's website. • Integrated Intercom and Segment across Cerkl’s application so Cerkl’s sales team can live chat with their users if they need assistance. ### Physical Facilities Student Associate @ Miami University Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Physical Facilities Department • Created online web reports for faculty to search Miami University’s database in order to extract the information they need. • Revamped the entire Physical Facilities Department website to enhance its appeal and mobile friendliness. ### Technical Intern @ The Brandery Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Cincinnati, OH • Assisted 10 different startups with their technology related needs at a nationally ranked startup accelerator. • Helped develop a stylistic recommendation engine and successfully launched the first pilot in a local clothing store. The engine recommends to the user what clothing garments to wear with what. • Developed a web application game for children to play so they can learn various different languages through visual play. • Wrote scripts in python to scrap the web for mass amounts of data using Selenium and Beautiful Soup. ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Interactive Media Studies (IMS) Miami University Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 ### Minor in Entrepreneurship Miami University Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 ### Stephen T. Badin Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jacobhammerle - Website: https://hammerle.us/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/jacobh JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jacobh/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22