Jake L.
5.0
VP of Engineering with a FE background
Studied at Brigham Young University
Works at Leland
Hiring Manager
Available Monday at 10:00 PM UTC
Usually responds within 2 hours
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Jake’s Software Engineering Qualifications
Experience level: Vice President
Jake has helped clients get into these companies:
Welcome to my profile! With over a decade of experience in software engineering and leadership roles, I have a proven track record of building and leading high-performing teams at innovative companies like Tomo and Claravine. As a Director of Software Engineering, I have successfully led the development of cutting-edge real estate portals and CRM systems, driving industry-leading performance and customer satisfaction. My passion for mentoring and developing talent is evident from my time as a Lead Instructor at DevMountain, where I helped students transform their careers through coding. Having coached 5 individuals to achieve their software engineering goals, I am eager to help you navigate your career path and reach your full potential. Let's connect and create a plan for your success!
Jake can help with:
Skill Building
Architecture
LinkedIn Review
Promotion Strategy
Frontend Frameworks
Resume Review
Salary Negotiation
Behavioral Interview Prep
About Jake
I'm a startup engineering leader/executive who came up through the front-end ranks. I love the early stage stage companies have thrived in building organizations and careers at fast growing companies. It can be tricky to navigate the growth curve of a team/company, the transitions into tech, from IC to management, and from management to executive, and I'd love to help more people tackle those challenges.
Why do I coach?
Of all the moments in my career, far and away my favorite are seeing the success of people who I've helped along the way. I'm serious. A text message from former employees letting me know they got the big promotion, the lunches where I get to hear about them experience the payoff of putting in the work the right way, the chances to be a reference for big leaps in their career: those are the BIG moments for me.
Work Experience
Vice President
Leland
February 2025 - Present
Doing whatever I can to help Leland win
Director, Software Engineering
Tomo
March 2022 - Present
Hiring Manager
• Lead multiple teams in the pursuit of disrupting the real estate and mortgage industries by treating everyone with humanity and offering them the experiences they deserve. Our NPS is the highest in the industry. • Led the development of a new real estate portal from inception to a production launch in 3 months by embracing those beautiful startup constraints. You can view it at tomo.com. • Leading continued efforts to iterate on our "real estate portal" at tomo.com, adding features, experimenting with differentiation, and optimizing performance -- we have industry leading PSI numbers Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Senior Engineering Manager
Tomo
July 2021 - March 2022
Hiring Manager
• Formed a new team to pursue the success of home buyers in all things CRM, call center, agent relations, internal tooling, automation, and whatever else needed to be done • Personally recruited the entire new team and 33% of all engineering hires at Tomo as a whole, building a world class team, and developing an inclusive and creative culture • Continued to lead the growing Front End guild of engineers, growing skills, setting patterns and practices, and ultimately learning from the great team I had helped assemble Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Software Architect
Tomo
December 2020 - July 2021
Admissions Committee Experience
• Founding Engineer - architected the FE system including framework, libraries, CSS solutions, testing patterns, e2e testing, i18n, component library ETC. • Worked with other engineers to architect the backend microservice architecture (python/go), data (PG), auth (cognitio), SFN orchestration for async human in the loop flows, and integrated with a number of vendors. • Built the call center experience in Twilio Flex, orchestrated nurture workflows from HubSpot, and ensured the flow of data and measurement in databricks/snowflake/amplitude. Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Executive Vice President
Claravine
July 2018 - October 2020
Hiring Manager
• First engineering hire, personally recruited a world-class engineering team full of talented and engaged engineers who love their jobs. • Helped the company raise millions of dollars in funding by pitching investors, presenting at board meetings, and contributing to the executive team. • Drove culture initiatives that allowed us to retain nearly 100% of employees, and resulted in high eNPS scores. • Worked extensively cross department to triple company revenue while maintaining nearly 100% customer retention. • Acted as Front End Architect in a rewrite of the UI into React, dramatically reducing user issues, simplifying workflows, and ultimately leading to higher NPS scores and customer delight. • Established and resourced UI/UX department • Contributed to company efforts where I was needed, including doing sales demos at conferences, security reviews, company events, swag, training, onboarding, mentorship program • Successfully developed and supported growth of my reports, as well as other individuals in the organization. (This is personally the most fulfilling aspect of my role).
Founder
BookRebel
January 2017 - September 2018
Founded Book Rebel, a mostly automated curated book deals service catering to the independent author community. Sent millions of emails to a hundred thousand subscribers. Successfully exited the business.
Technical Lead
Domo
July 2017 - July 2018
Admissions Committee Experience
Lead the UI organization of over 40 engineers, by organizing, leading discussion, making plans, and executing efforts in coordination across teams to keep Domo's flagship platform up-to-date and consistent. Efforts such as updating webpack, updating testing framework, surveying the organization and addressing major concerns to keep engineers engaged, introducing modern technologies such as React, Redux, Jest, in a safe, scalable, and maintainable way. Lead a team in development, maintenance, and consistency of shared components throughout the expansive codebase.
Senior Software Engineer
Domo
July 2015 - July 2017
I work to positively impact the business and development organization in as many ways as possible. Including: Performing development on-boarding to introduce new employees to Domo's culture, history and drive. Recruiting talented individuals from the community and at official Domo sponsored events and career fairs. Organize and host monthly Javascript meetup to train all engineers on new processes, technologies, or projects of interest. Present at development wide educational conferences about the impact of analytics and the narrative process. Formally and informally mentor new engineers to teach, guide, and encourage them to reach their potential. All while developing world class experiences for thousands of customers across the globe with modern technologies and processes.
Lead Instructor
devmountain
May 2014 - April 2016
I'm a part time teacher of JavaScript and Front-End Development at Utah's premiere coding bootcamp, DevMountain. I teach in the evenings and on Saturdays several times a month. I love helping students change their lives by learning a valuable skill set that will allow for a thriving career.
Software Engineer
Domo
May 2013 - July 2015
I work on the Front-End Web Application using Angular.js, Backbone.js, HTML5, SASS, git, d3, RESTful services, Jquery, underscore and other popular libraries. Domo's Web Application is among the largest Angular code bases in existence which offers a unique opportunity for maintaining a large javascript application. We focus on modularization and reusable code. We utilize require, grunt, KARMA (testing) and specific code organization best practices to allow us to scale our application efficiently. I take an active role in Domo Development's culture including organizing bi-weekly training meetings, helping to organize the on-boarding program and most importantly, organizing our Halloween presentation.
Education
Brigham Young University
Master's Degree, Master's of Information Systems Management
2012 - 2013
Activities and societies: Association of Information Systems
Brigham Young University
Bachelor's Degree, Information Systems Management
2010 - 2012
Activities and societies: Association of Information Systems.
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Overall Rating
5.0
Jake has helped clients get into these companies: