# Jacob Kaplan

> Tech Founder | Stealth | ex-Meta, ex-Amazon

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jacobkaplan

## Work Experience
### Technical Founder @ Stealth Startup
Jan 2025 – Present | New York, New York, United States
Bringing AI to an exciting untapped market. Stay tuned

### Senior Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Menlo Park, California, United States
I improved the developer experience for all internal engineers, and improved the infra for AI evals.

### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
● Improved the postmortem authoring process for a 200+ person organization. Reduced the average incident-to-publish turnaround time from over a month to a few weeks.
● Simplified mobile device management for Amazon's 1,000,000+ Android devices used in fulfillment centers globally.

### Member Of Technical Staff @ Butler Labs
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
● Converted server monolith to microservice architecture. Introduced and taught microservice best practices.
● Responsible for full-stack data AuthN/AuthZ, and automated tools to ensure privacy of sensitive user data in CI.
● Created multi-language autogenerated SDK and documentation for internal and public APIs. This simplified customer product API integration, eased customer onboarding, and reduced cross-service/integration bugs.
● Responsible for database administration (performance monitoring/improvements, security) across the full backend stack, designed and implemented data models across all products.
● Regularly performed security audits of full-stack packages, preventing multiple vulnerabilities from being deployed.
● Introduced a formal design-review process, raising quality of final system architecture, reducing bus factor, and improving code quality.

Python (FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Celery), NodeJS, Typescript, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, Bash/Zsh, Linux, macOS

### Software Engineer @ Cruise
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California
● Maintained core microservices (Python/Typescript) handling thousands of requests/second delivering 100+gb assets related to autonomous vehicles' various maps. Ensured service uptime and error rates were unaffected during project rollouts via traffic shadowing.
● Automated a rasterization pipeline (in Python, using Luigi framework) which transformed TBs of various inputs (raw lidar, semantic features, etc) to GBs of vectors for consumption by autonomous vehicles, reducing manual interventions from 8+ engineering hours down to 0.
● Designed a map/reduce pipeline sharding framework, reducing the rasterization process from over a day down to six hours.

Python, NodeJS, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Bash/Zsh, Linux, macOS

### Software Engineer Intern @ HOVER Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
● Prototyped new process using cell phone augmented reality point cloud data to increase accuracy of image to 3D-model reconstructions. Android/Java app, python/js web service for debugging and visualization.
● Winning team in internal hackathon, for an efficient 3d to 2d SLAM algorithm run on mobile devices.
● Created addressable octree for the 2d <-> 3d image registration of isomorphic features from photos of different angles of the same structure(s).
● Automated previously manual steps in the 3D reconstruction process with 98% accuracy, reducing labor costs and turnaround times.

Android, Java, GLSL, Python, Numpy, Matplotlib, JavaScript, D3.js, Android Studio

### Engineering Intern @ Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Santa Fe, New Mexico Area
● Designed and budgeted a custom 3-axis accelerometer array in Fritzing to measure vibrations on million-dollar paintings in shipment. 
● Sourced parts, constructed, and programmed prototypes.
● Designed a device to generate consistent realistic harmful vibrations.
● Used prototypes to assess various materials and material configurations for increased dampening of harmful vibrations. 
● Used sensors controlled by Arduino, interfaced over serial (PySerial).

Arduino, C, Fritzing, Python, Numpy, Pandas, PySerial, Scikit

### Software Engineer Intern @ Cognex Corporation
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Natick, Massachusetts
● Created the first internal full-stack data exploration tool to identify performance trends and regressions across different versions of vision algorithms.
● Used Python to wrap an internal C# library to create an IoT network discovery tool. Saw wide usage across the ID Products team.

JavaScript, D3.js, Python, Numpy, Pandas, Flask, MySQL, C#, HTML, JSON, CSS

### Research Collaborator @ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Rensselaer, New York
● Engineered and constructed a $30 replacement to a $4000 micro-spectrometer controller using an Arduino, as part of a medical application for a hospital in NYC.
● Created an eye tracker using a face-mounted camera and Python to track saccades, pupil dilations, and gaze and eye positions. Used OpenCV in Python.

Technologies Used: Python, PySerial, OpenCV (cv2 Python Package), Matplotlib, Scikit-learn, Numpy, Arduino, C, Fritzing (for circuit design), git


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22