# Jacob Hann

> Senior Software Engineer at IBM Z

Location: Oakland, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jacobhann

Software developer working on watsonx Code Assistant for Z at IBM. Interested in virtual reality, computer graphics, game development, and programming languages.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer - Agentic FE Squad Lead – Watson Code Assistant for Z @ IBM
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
• Led squad to develop and maintain API features for structuring LLM input and output
• Worked with customer code to fine-tune system and improve translation accuracy 
• Development and ownership of benchmarking utilities created in collaboration
with IBM research to speed product iteration and strength quality gates

### Lead Programmer & Co-Designer - Price of Flight @ Waterbox Interactive
Jan 2022 – Present
Price of Flight is a digital boardgame RPG developed by Waterbox Interactive, a studio comprised of three friends working in their free-time to design and create one of *the* experiences of all time. 
The game has received attention from IndieCade and IGF for its unusual design, a blend of systems driven arcade-style RPG mechanics with surprisingly deep non-linear narrative elements. The game is set to be released in Q2 2026.

### Staff Software Engineer @ IBM Systems
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Developed and owned hypervisor driver which enables libvirt api for zOS in cloud
• Worked on design and development of golang shim program for executing virtualization operations on cloud host nodes
• Research, design, and implementation of disk encryption support for zOS VMs

### Associate Software Engineer @ IBM
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
Full Stack Developer in Cloud and Cognitive Systems				                
•	Collaborated on full stack of software delivering code in frontend, API, CICD, and install platform
•	Led new hires and interns in development initiatives, providing direct mentorship and guidance
•	Contributed activity designs, led events, and delivered presentations for JumpStart Program

AIOPS Install Squad
•	Delivered containerized product install on OpenShift platform from planning stages to late life leveraging preexisting helm charts (Golang, Helm, Openshift Operators, Kubernetes)
•	Assisted customers and internal teams in product deployment, debugging, and testing (Kubernetes)
•	Coordinated with developers across dozens of teams to resolve install issues as code owner for AIManager Operator repos (Github)
•	Authored common CICD build scripts to be used across org (Bash, Docker) 
•	Collaborated on developing and maintaining library to support custom Helm reconcile within Openshift Operator framework to be used across organization (Golang, Helm)

NOI Policy Squad
•	Contributed features for user’s API including comprehensive unit test coverage (JS, GraphQL)

Cloud Event Management 
•	Designed, proposed, and delivered new calendar components to improve user experience (GIMP, CSS, JS)
•	Delivered technical and visual features, bugfixes, and improvements across frontend (React, JS)
•	Worked to deliver fixes and improvements to common pipeline (Jenkins, Groovy)

### Systems Officer / Programming Lead @ ASU Video Game Development Club (Heatwave Studios)
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Phoenix, Arizona Area
• Led a team of programmers working on the club's 2019 project Color Phase
• Maintained the club's github, performing code reviews and ensuring quality of delivered code
• Assisted younger members in learning Unity and C# best practices through hands on guidance and the creation of learning and tutorial materials
• Handled release process for Steam (build, store/library assets, listing)
• Maintained steam release, responding to bug reports, releasing updates (2020-2021)

### Software Development Intern @ DriveTime
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Tempe, Arizona, United States
•	Worked with team in Agile environment to implement updates for company site (Git, Azure)
•	Added support for new search terms on site backend (C#)
•	Designed, coded and headed deployment of feature to store search filter in bit-masked URL parameters (TypeScript, Angular)
•	Updated and improved UI for filters on main search page (CSS, TypeScript)

### Applications Development Intern @ Caris Life Sciences
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Tempe, Arizona
•	Automated pull down of billing information (Java)  
•	Wrote selenium test code for QA automation of main web application (Java)
•	Created and updated reporting queries for SSRS (SQL, SSRS)


## Education
### Bachelor of Science and Engineering - BSE in Computer Systems Engineering
Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jrhann
- GitHub: https://github.com/content-deleted

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Last updated: 2026-03-31