After a decade in the field as an engineering leader and hands-on practitioner, I’m thrilled to be offering a consulting service.

I can add value in three areas: technical consulting, mentorship, and workshops & teaching.

Technical Consulting

I love digging into thorny problems in greenfield and legacy code. A few areas I can contribute:

  • Raising code quality (tooling, testing, monitoring & observability, building CI/CD pipelines)
  • Big scary bugs
  • An infestation of little bugs that keep lingering
  • Process improvement
  • Internal/external communication and meeting/ceremony refinement
  • Refactoring
  • Complex feature building
  • Requirements gathering and story-carding
  • Pair programming, code reviews, and hands-on coaching
  • Technical writing and documentation modernization

Mentorship

I have been mentoring software engineers for a decade. I love listening and helping people get better! Dozens of my mentees are successful software engineers in the field. I can meet on your schedule and cadence.

Workshops & Teaching

I’ve taught one-day workshops, spoken at dozens of technical Meetups around the country, and presented at international tech conferences. Topics include:

  • Requirements gathering and story-carding
  • Test writing
  • Relational database design
  • Debugging
  • Reading source code
  • Shipping faster
  • Code reviews
  • Technical writing

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Why Work With Me?

Here’s what a few of my colleagues have had to say.

“Jake brings calm, consistent delivery in chaotic environments and builds both great software and great teams through exceptional leadership and mentorship.” —Justin Savage

“He is a user-focused engineer who seeks out the most impactful work, pairing deep pragmatism with curiosity and a strong ability to teach others.” —Josh Branchaud

“He takes on highly complex features and makes them feel simple and elegant, while setting a high bar for reliability, clarity, and testing practices.” —Lyzzi Brooks

“Jake consistently raises the bar with innovative, well-reasoned solutions and a meticulous approach to engineering excellence.” —Johnny Holton

“Jake is a real leader who untangles tough technical challenges, ships quickly without sacrificing quality, and consistently leaves systems better than he found them.” —Jenny Kinahan

Get in Touch

Interested in working with me? I offer free 15-minute calls to learn about your project. Send me a message and let’s chat.