Jake Peyser
Software Engineer at Notion
👋About Me
Hi there! I am a software engineer with a passion for all things product. I've spent my career building out SaaS products from the ground-up to leading teams at billion dollar firms. One of those is this platform...very meta!
I am currently working at Notion, helping to make toolmaking ubiquitous.
I love the end-to-end process of designing and building digital experiences for a broad set of users. As such, I find myself involved in everything from strategy to research to implementation. Having spent the earlier part of my career in consulting and developer advocacy, I value UX and data-driven product development highly.
These days I spend my time leading teams of engineers working on everything needed to make a great SaaS product: single-page applications, APIs, streaming data jobs, and data storage and synchronization services. I contribute to all layers of the stack, but am most effective at building and scaling complex web applications. Specialization aside, I am at my best when I am deeply invested in the product domain and working to solve real world problems.
I am an engineering leader with a passion for creating disruptive products. I’ve spent the last decade building large-scale
SaaS platforms while leading and growing engineering teams. I’m currently leading engineering at Muse, the world’s
simplest AI-powered website builder and e-commerce platform.
EXPERIENCE
Muse | New York, NY
VP of Engineering (1st Engineer) 2021 - Present
Tech: Next.js, React, GraphQL, Python, FastAPI, PostgresDB, DynamoDB, OpenAI, AWS
• Leading engineering efforts for a B2C website builder as core member of leadership team reporting directly to CEO
• As first engineer, rearchitected and refactored alpha build into a distributed, accessible and SEO-optimized platform,
decreasing build times by 3x, load times (TTI) by 2x and reducing CLS to nearly zero
• Built foundation of core systems including WYSIWYG builder, SSR, component registry, payment integrations, RBAC,
LLM integration, custom domains and more
• Own and oversee core engineering processes including technical design, code review, CI/CD and on-call rotation
Unqork | New York, NY
Staff Software Engineer 2020 - 2021
Tech: React, GraphQL, Node, Serverless, Kubernetes, MongoDB, AWS
• Led Apps and Admin teams for no-code application development platform totaling 9 full-stack engineers
• Architected and built auth layer and dependency management system; two pivotal pieces in expanding clients’ footprint
• Worked cross-functionality with product and architecture teams to scope, pitch, design and delegate projects
• Partnered with chief architect on refactor to microservices, executing initial stages and advocating for org-wide adoption
Oden Technologies | New York, NY
Principal Software Engineer 2017 - 2020
Tech: React, MobX, GraphQL, Node, Golang, Python, Airflow, Heroic, Neo4j, PostgresDB, Kubernetes, Google Cloud
• Hired as 4th engineer, left as platform engineering lead responsible for 7 full-stack engineers, reporting directly to CTO
• Worked with founders and leadership team to jointly establish technical direction of organization
• Partnered with product management and data science to establish product vision and coordinate work streams
• Led architecture and engineering for web applications, REST & GraphQL APIs, and multiple storage layers
• Designed and built configurable manufacturing KPI dashboards and pivot tables with dynamic filtering
• Created system for monitoring and classifying machine availability in real-time using streaming metrics
IBM | Austin, TX
Developer Advocate 2015 - 2016
Tech: Backbone.js, Node, Python, Watson AI, Cloud Foundry, IBM Cloud
• Led team of software engineers responsible for driving user adoption of early IBM Cloud platform
• Built flagship demos in multiple language and compute offerings to showcase platform use cases
• Evangelized products in developer community through OSS, blog posts, and SDKs to help grow usage 500% to >1M
• Conducted outbound product management through enterprise customer and community feedback
Business Process Management Consultant 2013 - 2015
Tech: JavaScript, BPM, BPM Advanced, IBM Websphere
• Worked directly with clients to analyze and optimize core business processes
• Modeled process flows using BPMN 2.0 and delivered solutions leveraging agile methodology
• Ran bi-weekly review meetings with key project stakeholders
• Architected industry-leading bank’s new due diligence system of record
EDUCATION
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
B.S.E. Computer Science 2013
Cum Laude, Mathematics and Entrepreneurship Minors, 3x Deans List & 2x University Honors
jakepeyser@gmail.com https://jakepeyser.com
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