Jake Stark

Father, husband, full stack developer, decentralized protocol enjoyer. Learning more and more about @ATProto every day. If you see me biking, don't honk.

The Twin Cities have been my home for most of my life. I studied Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota and I currently reside in Minneapolis.

Right now I am looking for work, spending time with my family, hacking away on a side project or two, and attempting to build up the courage (and gear) to winter bike around town.

Barcom Trading

In 2025 our startup was acquired. I was a lead engineer for some of the merger's key integrations. After that, I was a Senior Product Engineer on our flagship mobile trading app.

Slingshot

In 2020 I helped launch a decentralized exchange aggregatation platform from seed. After 4 years of market share battles, we were acquired by the world's highest volume NFT exchange.

In 2019 I joined Samsung's then recently acquired smart home subsidiary, SmartThings, as a cloud engineer.

The team worked on migrating from a monolith to microservices with 0 downtime, handling thousands of events per second

From 2017 to 2019 I was a cloud engineer, automating the migration of some of the worlds largest enterprises to IBM's cloud offerings, and contributing to the Watson AI security suite.

Previously

From 2015 to 2016 I was an associate engineer at NimbeLink, a cellular IOT solutions startup based in Plymouth, MN.

From early 2014 to late 2015 I was an IT technician at a local machine shop, where after 6 months of cleaning The Gunkā„¢ off floor computers, I learned VBScript and I was paid to code for the first time!