# Jake Laney

> Staff Software Eng @ Rippling

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

#4 all-time contributor to Rippling's GitHub.
 
I'm a product-first engineer who starts with the customer and works backward. Over the years, genuine curiosity about how systems work has led me to solve a pretty wide range of business problems.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Rippling
Jan 2025 – Present | New York, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Rippling
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States

### Software Engineer 2 @ Rippling
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States

### Software Engineer 2 @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Migrated 14 high-throughput micro-services from legacy infra onto native AWS, enabling a cellular architecture for resilience and scalability. IaC in Ruby, observability, bug fixes, and safe rollout via feature flag across all AWS regions.

Designed and deployed an AWS Lambda function across all regions with full observability and infrastructure defined in CDK. Handled deployment strategy, monitoring via logs/metrics/traces, and automated rollout through CI/CD.

### Software Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering
Auburn University

### Chinese Language Program (1 Semester)
Tsinghua University

### Computer Science Exchange (1 Semester)
National Cheng Kung University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jakelaney
- GitHub: https://github.com/JakeLaney

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Last updated: 2026-03-30