About

I’m Jake. I prioritize family and the web fascinates me, so I build software remotely from a small Ohio town near where I grew up.

I’m a father to two young children and husband to the woman I fell in love with in college while attending church together and playing ultimate frisbee on the weekends. Ultimate frisbee doesn’t happen anymore, but I try to disc golf as often as I can and occasionally compete in local tournaments. Running never seemed like something I would enjoy, but I came to love running after completing a half-marathon Spartan race to push myself near my limits to see how I handle adversity. I think my wife fell in love with me because I had a small bottle of sriracha on my keychain, but I’ve ditched that for a Field Notes pocket journal and pen that go with me everywhere.

Professionally, I’ve evolved from Chipotle burrito-boy to senior software engineer. Somewhere in the middle there, I stopped being a software engineer and veered into product management at NASA, but I really missed slinging code and building things with my “bare hands”, so I returned to software engineering. I currently work at Progressive Insurance as a senior software engineer, building software that uses machine learning models to estimate repair and replacement costs for auto parts, based on photos submitted during accident claims.

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