Jacob Kerr

Software Engineer @ Addepar

About

I'm a software engineer at Addepar, working on high-visibility client-facing products and server-side improvements as a member of the End Client Experience (ECX) team, part of Addepar's Core Product. I hold a Master of Engineering degree in Computer Science from Cornell University with a specialization in distributed systems, cloud computing, and software engineering. I previously graduated with honors (Cum Laude) from Cornell University's College of Engineering with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a minor in Operations Research and Information Engineering (ORIE). I've previously held software engineering internships at Addepar, Lockheed Martin, TheTake, and Sjulson Lab. I've also worked as a teaching assistant for CS 2110: Objected Oriented Design and Data Structures for four semesters and have been nominated for a Bowers CIS Course Staff Excellence award. I volunteered as a Big Red Ambassador and an Engineering Ambassador for the undergraduate admissions office at Cornell, as well as a student mentor for the Association for Computer Science Undergrads (ACSU). You can find my portfolio at https://github.com/jakejack13 Want to chat with me? Book a time slot here: https://calendar.app.google/CHbExH7aSAP8NkK58

Country

United States

City

New York

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Software Engineering, Software Development, Computer Science, Microservices, Cloud Computing, Distributed Systems, GitHub, Docker, Jersey, Java Object Oriented Querying (jOOQ), SQL, Quarkus, Project Management, Agile Methodologies, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Fault Tolerant Systems, Ember.js, Operating Systems, Gitlab, C++

Experience

Software Engineer

Addepar

2025-9 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

New York, New York, United States

- Worked on Client Portal product offering, part of Core Product and Product Engineering organizations - Created large database migrations to migrate clients from legacy Client Portal to new Visual Signature Client Portal - Led design and implementation of new caching features to vastly improve performance for end-clients - Onboarded and mentored several new members of the team

Associate Software Engineer

Addepar

2024-6 - 2025-9 · 1 yr 4 mos

New York, New York, United States

- Designed and developed APIs that power high-visibility client-facing products - Created and owned large-scale database and API migration from legacy product to new visual system - Worked on Client Portal product offering, part of Core Product and Product Engineering organizations - Organized and led company-wide initiatives to tackle server-side tech debt through volunteer committee - Worked with Java, Ember.js, Quarkus, Jersey, JOOQ, MySQL, Flyway, Kubernetes, LaunchDarkly

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Cornell University

2023 - 2024 · 1 yr

Ithaca, New York, United States

Teaching assistant for CS 2110: Object Oriented Design and Data Structures. Taught discussion sections and ran office hours, managed the EdStem discussion forum for course staff and students, graded exams and assignments, led final review session. Awarded Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Faculty Award

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

Cornell University

2022 - 2023 · 1 yr

Ithaca, NY

Teaching assistant for CS 2110: Object Oriented Design and Data Structures. Taught discussion sections and ran office hours, managed the EdStem discussion forum for course staff and students, graded exams and assignments, head grader for exams, in charge of managing and allotting extra course staff to surge consulting hours before deadlines. Nominated for Cornell Bowers CIS Course Staff Excellence award

Undergraduate Consultant

Cornell University

2022 - 2022

Ithaca, New York, United States

Ran office hours and graded exams and assignments for CS 2110: Object Oriented Design and Data Structures

Software Engineer Intern

Addepar

2023-5 - 2023-8 · 4 mos

New York, New York, United States

Created 2FA requirement exemption in both front-end and back-end capacities through developing a database migration, building new endpoints to the back-end server, and adding buttons in the front-end to facilitate user access. Worked with Java, Ember.js, Quarkus, Jersey, JOOQ, Flyway, LaunchDarkly

Software Engineering Intern

Lockheed Martin

2022-6 - 2022-12 · 7 mos

King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, United States

Worked in test automation developing scripts for ensuring software met customer requirements

Software Engineer Intern

TheTake.ai

2021-6 - 2021-8 · 3 mos

New York, New York, United States

Created scripts to collect data on production databases and wrote reports on trends found in this data to present to the engineering team. Created automated integration tests to benchmark text search algorithm used in internal company tools and proposed various improvements to the text search algorithm using database data collected.

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Brain Computation Lab, Department of Biology at Cornell University

2020-9 - 2021-1 · 5 mos

Ithaca, New York, United States

Worked as an undergraduate research assistant at the Brain Computation Lab in the Department of Biology at Cornell University developing tools for processing neuronal data as part of a neuroscience software package

Laboratory Technician

Sjulson Laboratory

2019-7 - 2019-8 · 2 mos

Greater New York City Area

Researched different dimensional reduction algorithms (PCA, NMF, lPCA, ePCA, gPCA) to help condense and analyze neuroscience data from lab

Education

Cornell University

Computer Science

2023-8 - 2024-5 · 10 mos

Specialization in distributed computing, cloud computing, systems programming, and software engineering. Worked on the Scalable Platform for Efficient Execution of Distributed Testing (SPEED) as my MEng capstone project. More info can be found in my projects section Part of the early admit program