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Jake Yesbeck

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Senior Engineering Manager | Head of Engineering & Product | AI Engineer | Staff Software Engineer | GraphQL & API Scale Expert | Cross-Functional Team Builder
Richmond, Virginia, United States

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  • Carrum Health
    Senior Engineering Manager
    Carrum Health
    Jul 2026 - Current (2 months)
  • Capital One
    Software Engineering Manager
    Capital One
    Jul 2024 - Jul 2026 (2 years 1 month)
    Hands-on software engineering manager responsible for paving the way for federated GQL at Capital One Led team of five developers in the adoption of federated GraphQL to enable resilient and scalable data access while minimizing operational complexity. Increased adoption of GQL from 1k requests per month up to 1 billion requests per month while maintaining 100% uptime. Developed agentic workflows for secure operation validation, speeding up client onboarding by over 95% utilizes cutting edge AI skills and agents. Overhauled existing manual code deployment process reducing time to production by 75%. This resulted in a 300% increase in deployments and greatly elevated stakeholder trust through enhanced visibility and cross-functional commu
  • Nomad
    Head of Engineering and Product
    Nomad
    Jan 2023 - Jun 2024 (1 year 6 months)
    Software engineering manager and technical lead for lean, high performing product development team that built Nomad’s online platform from the ground up. Responsible for Engineering and Product Management teams including front-end, back-end, dev-ops, AI models, feature deployment and quality assurance. Fostered strong cross-functional collaboration with senior leadership, product, operations, accounting, sales, and business development teams making sure engineering always aligned with overall company priorities.
  • Nomad
    Senior Engineering Manager
    Nomad
    Apr 2021 - Jan 2023 (1 year 10 months)
    Built best-in-class software engineering team through hands-on mentorship establishing a culture of frequent code deployment and continuous integration and delivery, emphasizing bug-free scalable software Conducted cross discipline training and enabled technical growth for all engineers on the team broadening their impact, skill sets, and reducing dependencies Created primary website, REST API, database, admin tools, testing environments, multiple third-party integrations, and more to convert existing “no-code” solutions into scalable software solutions Deployed and integrated AI models for price estimation and rental valuation
  • Arcadia
    Staff Engineer
    Arcadia
    Jan 2020 - Apr 2021 (1 year 4 months)
    Staff software engineer responsible for the transition to a REST API, replacing error-prone manual spreadsheet operations with software, and mentored junior engineers Designed and led transition to REST API resulting in 50% increase of developer productivity while collaborating with multiple engineering teams Created API Gateway to orchestrate requests via microservices in order to improve scalability and customer experience after extensive end-user and product research Introduced object-oriented programming to increase junior developer and mid-level developer efficiency resulting in cleaner more testable code, reducing code review iteration by 50%
  • Arcadia
    Senior Software Engineer
    Arcadia
    Jul 2019 - Jan 2020 (7 months)
    Developed new customer sign up process and resulting in 200% more leads Introduced feature estimation and process changes to enable developers to deliver more features on or ahead of schedule
  • Test Double
    Senior Software Engineer
    Test Double
    Jan 2019 - Jun 2019 (6 months)
    -Consultant deployed to augment and improve software engineering teams focused on improving code quality, team dynamic, and developer experience
  • Y
    Staff Software Engineer
    Year of Commits
    Apr 2015 - Apr 2016 (1 year 1 month)
    Year long initiative to contribute to Open Source software daily and post weekly blog articles.
  • Apartment List
    Senior Software Engineer
    Apartment List
    Feb 2014 - Dec 2018 (4 years 11 months)
    - Responsible for company infrastructure direction and main decision maker for scaling crucial services - Designed, architected, implemented, and was Tech Lead for in house notification system resulting in 30% revenue gain company-wide -Regularly gave internal talks educating the team on software engineering patterns and API design
  • Changeorg
    Software Engineer
    Changeorg
    Nov 2012 - Dec 2013 (1 year 2 months)
    Worked on revenue generating features and content delivery to partners. Collaborated and implemented multiple user facing features.
  • Vertical Brands Inc
    Software Engineer
    Vertical Brands Inc
    Feb 2011 - Sep 2012 (1 year 8 months)
    Rails and PHP Engineer responsible for architecture, implementation and maintenance in various applications
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    Software Engineer
    Advizo
    Jan 2010 - Feb 2011 (1 year 2 months)
    Software development and design.
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  • Virginia Commonwealth University
    Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science
    Virginia Commonwealth University
    Jan 2005 - Jan 2009 (4 years 1 month)
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  • Y
    Year of Commits
    A year long journey of open source commits and interesting blog articles.
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