# Jake Demarest-Mays > Software Engineering, Product, Mentorship Location: Boise, Idaho, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jakedemarestmays I'm a product-focused engineer with experience across the stack. I apply myself most to where the company needs me- sometimes that's management and organization, sometimes its frontend and user experience, sometimes backend, or even infrastructure. My best asset is my ability to work with and focus on others' growth. I make it a priority to get to know and understand the goals of my colleagues and find ways to use the team's goals to help them grow too. My adaptability and team-oriented mindset have helped me have a diverse set of experiences, at everything from the smallest startups to the largest enterprises, and continue to provide as much value as I can. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Atlassian Jan 2023 – Jan 2026 | Boise, Idaho, United States Full-stack engineer on Atlassian Talent, an enterprise workforce planning product that connects HR positions to strategic priorities via deep HRIS integration. Over three years, contributed across the entire product lifecycle from internal tooling to a externally shipped SaaS offering- while mentoring junior engineers and leading technical design decisions. Talent - Strategy Collection (TypeScript / Koa.js / GraphQL) Contributed primarily to the backend of the externally shipped product: a TypeScript Koa.js GraphQL API serving enterprise customers as part of Atlassian's Strategy Collection. Architected the data syncing system and observability tooling, and led reliability and performance improvements that meaningfully reduced incidents and latency over time. Enterprise Data Platform (Java 22+) Designed and developed a high-throughput, real-time data pipeline processing Workday HRIS change events and distributing authoritative workforce data to teams across the entire organization — well beyond the Talent team. Worked with the Workday integration layer to surface real-time talent data company-wide. Internal Talent (Go / TypeScript / React) Built and maintained the internal workforce management application, working across a Go backend and React SPA frontend. Contributed to architecture decisions and delivery of core workforce planning features used across Atlassian. ### Lead Software Engineer @ Rabbet Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Boise, Idaho, United States - Developed internal system for tracking and reviewing customer account usage for sales & renewal purposes - Created a system for easily adding data to structured logs that allows the tracking of arbitrary metrics, alongside improving quality of error/incident reporting - Improved build, deploy, and ops systems for both the Elixir backend(running in Kubernetes) and the React SPA client, to reduce build times, increase code quality, shorten deploys, and ease incident information retrieval - Developed and implemented numerous team process changes, such as required automated testing, feature flagging, enhanced code review, an incident response plan, work priority, and ticket estimation - Upgraded Python-based machine learning training system for parsing and categorizing documents, as well as implementing stability and reliability improvements as well as new features to that and other Python-based event and job processing systems for document processing. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Community.com Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 - Created an external integration with Workato - Implemented improvements to internal Event Sourcing and Protobuf frameworks - Improved the quality of automated tests and observability systems ### Lead Software Engineer @ Workbase Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Boise, Idaho, United States - Implemented tooling and educated the team on testing, observability, build systems, type systems, and helpful programming paradigms - Ran a new process of product development focused around educated experimentation, quick iterations, and measurable feedback - Managed customer relationships and formalized the process for customer support and feedback - Took on CTO responsibilities while existing CTO was on paternity, including being the primary liaison to the sales teams, leading product development, and managing a team of direct reports ### Senior Software Engineer @ Procore Technologies Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Boise, Idaho Area - Helped scale a real-time events system powering webhooks and websockets past 20 million events per week in Elixir/Ruby/Postgres - Architected a new user experience for customizable permissions that included a new framework for product teams to easily add new, more granular permissions while maintaining ease-of-configuration. Additionally, designed and built new applications in Go to support this while we moved to a Service Oriented Architecture. - Wrote and socialized our first engineering-wide approaches to observability, and improved/built internal Ruby and Javascript/Typescript libraries to ease its implementation - Led a group on improving test quality and run times across the organization, and trained QA staff on writing automated tests that were fast and focused on maintaining the user's experience ### Lead Software Engineer @ One4All Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Boise, Idaho Area Built and owned our entire backend platform handling our data intake, Elasticsearch setup and integration, devops and deploy process, and user/social logic for a social network based around donating to IRS-approved charities. Most work done in Elixir, though some in Javascript/React/React Native, Elasticsearch, and various AWS technologies. ### Software Engineer @ A10 Networks Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Boise, Idaho Area At A10's Boise remote office, I helped design and implement new features, user interface improvements, and mentor newer developers in better ways to approach the software development process. Primarily working in Ruby on Rails, with a strong reliance on RSpec and testing methodologies. ### Software Engineer @ Doximity Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Working as a full stack developer, at Doximity my daily actions were in Rails, with time spent in Backbone, jQuery, Elasticsearch, and more, to expand capabilities primarily for customer support and career marketing. ### Web/Mobile Developer, Innovation Research & Development Garage @ UnitedHealth Group Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 In a small part of UHG called "The Garage", we iterated over new healthcare products and services at a rapid pace. Working with entrepreneurs to help refine their ideas and set the most effective goals, creating their experiences in Rails, to implementing payment processing, SMS notification and data-gathering systems to better enable entrepreneurs and management alike to experiment in weeks the way that was impossible with the larger, more structured flow of UHG at large. ### Web Developer @ Apartments24-7.com Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Distributed At Apartments24-7, I learned the ins and outs of web development, HTTP, and the agile-based workflow. Utilizing Django, Bootstrap, and jQuery daily, I was able to expand user maintenance tracking and scheduling, create new RESTful APIs, and build new employee task tracking and comparison software, using technologies like Redis. Raphael.js, and D3.js along the way. ### Freelance Programming & Graphic Design @ Self-Employed Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 Freelance with my personal blog and work for friends, along with other deals. Feel free to contact me for job opportunities. ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bravely --- Source: https://flows.cv/jakedemarestmays JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jakedemarestmays/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22