Resume – Jacob O'Bryant

I'm a software engineer with seven years in industry. I do full-stack web dev, leaning towards backend, primarily on the JVM (with Clojure). A few of my interests include recommender systems, server-side rendering, not doing Scrum, working asynchronously, tools for online speech, developer tools, and education.

Experience

2023–current: Software Engineer at Tyba. Decarbonizin' the energy grid. Full-stack web dev. Clojure.
2019–2023: Bootstrapped founder. Started Yakread in August 2022, a reading app that includes an online recommender system + feed ranking algorithm. Also built The Sample and various other recommender systems before that. Clojure.
2018–2019: Software Engineer at Lucid Software. I worked on the product now known as Marq, doing full-stack web dev. Scala, Typescript.
2016: Software Engineer Intern at a now-defunct AI startup. Mostly devops. Linux, Python, Kubernetes.
2015–2016: Assistant Linux Sysadmin at BYU. Part-time college job. Linux, Python.

Open-source

2020–current: Creator of Biff, a Clojure web framework for solo developers.

Education

2015–2017: B.S. in Computer Science from BYU. Math minor. "Magna Cum Laude"