# Jake L.

> Software Engineer at Liongard

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Liongard
Jan 2023 – Present | Houston, Texas, United States

### Associate Software Engineer @ Liongard
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Houston, Texas, United States
- Developed and maintained robust integrations with 6 external applications using TypeScript, enabling seamless data synchronization with 3rd party apps and real-time alerting across multiple systems
- Eliminated billing inconsistencies and saved approximately 15 work hours a week by leveraging AWS Lambda to create an automated pipeline that surfaces Salesforce CRM data directly in customer UI
- Identified and resolved AWS billing and security issues, saving $2,000/month in Elastic IP costs and securing S3 access
- Developed and maintained ETL programs in TypeScript to securely retrieve and manipulate large volumes of client information across dozens of 3rd party APIs daily, surfacing data in a configurable data dashboard
- Consolidated 5 overlapping ETL programs into 1 streamlined product by combining and refactoring 5 codebases, shortening the user setup process by 80%, and achieving a 65% reduction in storage costs
- Overhauled legacy React components, improving visual consistency, increasing responsiveness, and streamlining navigation across the application while improving code quality and achieving 100% code coverage of new components
- Accelerated Agile workflows by building Slackbots in JavaScript with integrations to Atlassian tools that identify stale pull requests and pipeline failures, increasing response speeds by 63%
- Mitigated over 40 security vulnerabilities by leveraging JavaScript security integrations to identify potential issues

### Software Engineer Intern @ Rice University
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Houston, Texas, United States
- Designed and implemented a dashboard web application from end-to-end using Angular and Python, visualizing large volumes of data, and streamlining retrieval and search capabilities for past research experiments
- Compressed experiment results using Python, reducing data size by up to 60%, enhancing network transfer speeds and overall data efficiency
- Built and tested a backend store capable of storing and managing large datasets, with file sizes of up to 30 GB


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Computer Science
Rice University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jake-l-45049b203
- GitHub: https://github.com/ExistentialBread

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Last updated: 2026-03-23