Jacob Malone

hi, i'm jacob malone!

i'm a software engineer, self-taught game dev, and technology enthusiast.

about me:

i'm passionate about creating fun software, whether it's through web development, game design, or exploring new technologies. in my free time, i enjoy running, hiking, and learning about the world around me.

professional experience

CapTech Consulting

Denver, CO

Software Engineer

– Present
  • Cut product release time from nine months to one by designing and building a scalable rules-engine API for a Fortune 500 U.S. financial institution's banking lifecycle management, owning the stack end-to-end from relational data model to service logic.
  • Resolved performance and scalability issues under production load by designing and optimizing relational data models and service-level APIs for high-concurrency systems as part of a large-scale cloud database migration.
  • Kept low-latency interfaces reliable for the operations team by debugging and resolving critical production issues across services, and by building internal tooling and automated tests.
  • Shipped API design changes and drove issues to resolution by working directly with engineering, product, and operations stakeholders.

Software Engineer

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  • Improved performance, readability, and long-term maintainability of systems handling high transaction volumes by rewriting legacy backend services and APIs in Go for a Fortune 500 bank, as part of a large-scale system modernization.
  • Owned infrastructure end-to-end by provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure as code using AWS CDK, delivering consistent, version-controlled environments for distributed backend services.
  • Cut manual overhead and accelerated release cycles by engineering CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test, and deployment workflows.
  • Hardened services against exploits by diagnosing and remediating critical security vulnerabilities in backend systems, meeting banking-grade security and reliability standards.

Software Engineering Intern

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  • Shipped backend services and RESTful APIs for a major airline partner's full-stack web application using Python, Spring Boot, and relational SQL databases, with automated unit tests.
  • Improved database performance and scalability by 20% through query indexing and schema normalization.

California Polytechnic State University

San Luis Obispo, CA

IT Student Assistant

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  • Improved system uptime for 20,000+ campus users by diagnosing and resolving networking, connectivity, and hardware issues.

engineering projects

Proximity Chat for Drivers

– Present

Go, WebRTC, Geolocation

  • Building a Go signaling server to establish peer-to-peer WebRTC audio connections between nearby drivers in real time, handling connection negotiation, session state, and NAT traversal; validated across multiple concurrent test devices, with plans for a public release.
  • Designing a geolocation-based proximity system that continuously matches and re-matches drivers into voice sessions as their GPS coordinates converge and diverge.

education

California Polytechnic State University

San Luis Obispo, CA

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

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Cum Laude

technical skills

Languages
Go, Python, SQL, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, C/C++, Swift
Backend & APIs
RESTful API design, Spring Boot, Django, Node.js, gRPC, WebRTC, distributed systems
Databases & Performance
PostgreSQL, relational schema design & optimization, performance & scalability tuning, DynamoDB, Aurora, Cassandra
Testing & DevOps
Automated/unit testing, code review, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, CI/CD, AWS, Postman, Agile/Scrum
Additional
AI/ML, LLM Integration