# Jacob Zwang

> Freestyle CTO - Compute for AI

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

## Work Experience
### Co-Founder @ Freestyle Cloud
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Building compute infrastructure for AI

### Senior Full Stack Engineer @ Apple
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024
Designed and developed POC chatbot platform and carried multiple resulting works to production at scale.
Architected codebase to replace over 5 years of previous frontend and backend development.
Designed iMessage inspired design language for Apple’s internal chatbot configuration platform.
Built graph editor for configuring complex data driven customer experiences for chatbots in SolidJS.
Architected and released GraphQL platform enabling business users to leverage complex data in chatbots.
Designed, developed, and released tools for creating and managing financial forms in chatbots.
Worked with stakeholders to ensure design and engineering efforts met business needs.
Designed and developed Apple-style SolidJS component library.
Deeply integrated machine learning into our next generation chatbot configuration platform using Python.
Helped bridge the gap between platform and machine learning teams.
Introduced new projects and opportunities to our team.
Built testing pipeline in playwright and worked with QE and QA teams for additional testing.

### Product Architect, Co-Founder @ Backyard
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Designed UI (user interface) in Figma and during development.
Led development of user interface in SvelteJS (SvelteKit) and established front-end architecture.
Built custom Svelte transitions and router.
Built reusable and SSR (server-side rendering) compatible UI components in SvelteJS (JavaScript, TypeScript).
Built development environment including PostgresSQL, NodeJS, and Redis in Docker Compose.
Built multi-stage Docker container for production deployment on AWS.
Built session middleware using TypeScript (JavaScript), SvelteKit, and Redis.
Built REST API endpoints using TypeScript, pg, and SvelteKit.
Built automated testing in Cypress.
Contributed to CI/CD (Continues Integration, Continues Development) in Github Actions, AWS CodePipeline, and Husky.
Switched raw SQL queries to PgTyped queries for automated TypeScript interface generation.

### Lead Software Developer @ Fitty Labs
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | United States
Lead conversion of ReactJS codebase to SvelteKit (at founders request).
Built real-time Web Socket infrastructure using Cloudflare Durable Objects.
Built Miniflare proxy for SvelteKit to achieve full stack hot module reload.
Built storage model using TypeScript, Cloudflare KV, and Cloudflare Durable Objects.
Contributed to sprint planning and time estimates.
Lead UI/UX redesign to prioritize shape, color, and animation over text and icons for viewing at a distance.
Built custom animations and transitions in SvelteJS for powerful visual cues.

### Web / Automation Developer | UI/UX Designer @ GUSTAV CARROLL INC
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Designed and discussed the website with the client using Figma.
Built development pipeline CI/CD (Continues Integration, Continues Development) in Google Cloud Build (GCP).
Hosted Git repository on Google Cloud Source Repositories.
Stored images, product index, and website backups using Google Cloud Storage.
Built frontend UI in SvelteJS (SvelteKit) and TypeScript.
Wrote scoped and global CSS styling.
Built automated response contact form in Mailgun and TypeScript.
Hosted website on Google Cloud Run (GCP).

### ThreeJS Developer @ Genopets
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Built ThreeJS abstraction layer in JavaScript for swapping vertex buffers in an out of components.
Built animation phase abstraction using Tween.js for blending between models.
Built Blender to ThreeJS automation pipeline in Python.
Optimized GLTF 3D models for the web in Blender.
Designed, modeled, and animated example "Genopet" for artists to reference.
Wrote documentation for recreating efficient and aesthetically pleasing 3d models for the web.
Built custom glow shader in GLSL.

### Salesforce Automation Developer @ Alden Pacific Investments
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
Lead development of custom questionnaire and calender form with Salesforce integration.
Taught Alden Pacific Investments internal engineer how to maintain the application.
Set up CI/CD using Github and Google Cloud Build.
Built Docker Compose development environment and production Docker containers.
Mail automation using Mailgun and JavaScript.

### C Programming Tutor @ Unknown
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020

### Video Editor @ Open Climate Collabathon
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

### BallotNav | UI Designer / Developer @ Hack for LA
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
- developed frontend UI in ReactJS
- designed the logo icon, it was finalized by an accomplice 
- aided in UI /UX design

### Project Manager & UI/UX | NST Project @ Hack for LA
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020

### Marketing Manager @ SplashHacks
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Santa Monica, California, United States


## Education
### Y Combinator
Jan 2024


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jacobzwang
- Portfolio: https://www.zwa.ng
- GitHub: https://github.com/JacobZwang

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Last updated: 2026-03-25