Jesse Myers

Technical Leader. Hands-On Architect. Infrastructure Creator. Mentor.

I build software systems, architectures, and teams that work well together to create great products. I believe strongly in servant leadership, cross-functional teams, and the importance of culture. I see software architecture as a means to use my deep technical expertise to enable people and promote core values.

Professional Experience

August 2019 - Current

Various - Software Architecture Consulting

Providing both high-level (architecture, strategy, process, culture, mentorship) and low-level (hands-on implementation of technial designs, backend services, and cloud infrastructure) consulting services to multiple client companies.

Clients include a series-D insurance startup with a billion dollar valuation and a stealth startup developing generative video technology for personal and professional content creation.

February 2016 - March 2019

Globality - Chief Architect

Architected and built core systems for a hundred+ microservice ecosystem. Helped grow the product and team in close collaboration with the CTO and VP of Engineering. Globality raised $100M in funding from SoftBank Vision Fund in January 2019.

  • Wrote large portions of the product, including core services related to conversational AI, workflow state machines, knowledge representation, and data processing pipelines.
  • Partnered with product, customer success, and InfoSec to lead many mission-critical initiatives, including a next-generation user experience, enterprise approvals, and data security.
  • Created open source libraries for core infrastructure to accelerate microservice development.
  • Led engineering best practices, technical designs, and release processes.
  • Established a DevOps function and built foundations for using AWS with Terraform, Ansible, and CircleCI.
  • Enabled adoption of new technologies including ECS, Elasticsearch, and Neo4J.
August 2001 - January 2016

Location Labs - Chief Scientist

Joined when there were fewer than ten employees; helped grow the organization through profitability and acquisition. Held many roles, launched multiple product lines, and wore many hats as part of building core software and growing teams. Location Labs was acquired by AVG and then by Avast.

  • Wrote the company’s initial location-based services product; led deployment and launch within SK telecom’s network.
  • Designed and helped build a pioneering, pre-smartphone mobile mapping and navigation application; launched on Sprint in conjunction with InterActive Corp (IAC) brand properties.
  • Created a first-of-its-kind, privacy-aware location aggregation product; authored integrations with all major US cellular carriers (AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon).
  • Scaled pre-installed mobile device management software to tens of millions of devices and bursts of thousands of events per second.
  • Led engineering best practices and adoption of many new technologies; championed use of Python, Jenkins, Docker, and microservices.
  • Managed teams, mentored extensively, and ran several company-wide trainings.

Education

August 1997 - May 2001

Brown University - BS Mathematics and Computer Science

Graduated summa cum laude with Phi Beta Kappa honors.

Located in

  • San Francisco, CA
  • Open to remote work

Fluent with

  • Python
  • PostgreSQL
  • REST
  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • Ansible

Worked with

  • Node.js
  • GraphQL
  • Elasticsearch
  • Neo4J

Passionate about

  • Microservices
  • Event-sourcing
  • Distributed Systems

Key open source projects

References

Available upon request.