# Jacob Kilby

> Software Engineer at Rippling

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

Software Engineer with experience in Python, Networking, API development, full stack systems, security, and embedded systems.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Rippling
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Lacework
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
Software engineer working on Lacework's agentless solutions

### Software Development Engineer II @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Redesigned two APIs to support Authentication and Authorization, while still servicing ~1MM requests per day
Led a small team of engineers to assist other Amazon teams with their conversion to our new API
Reduced the failure rate of an internal tool from 30% to .1%
Designed a system to support device specific metrics, outputting over thirty metrics from a ~million devices

### Software Engineering Intern @ NextGen Healthcare
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Irvine, CA
Developed a skill for Amazon Alexa in Java, that allowed Alexa to interface with the JIRA issue tracking software API and Amazon Lambda to retrieve information about Scrum teams using voice commands.
Developed a web application using Angular and Amazon DynamoDB that interfaced with a company API, allowing the development teams to package software remotely. 
Presented an overview of the skill and application and demonstrated the potential productivity gains to the R&D team and leadership, including the organization VP and the SVP, R&D.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Utrip
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Greater Seattle Area
Developed a search engine in Java for a collection of tagged objects using Apache Solr
Created a presentation to explain how the search engine works. Presented to the entire company with the goal of having people on who aren’t developers understand the technical parts of the system


## Education
### University of Michigan


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-29