Jacob Poye
VP Of Platform Founding Member
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Poye is a seasoned technology leader and platform architect with more than 20 years of experience building teams, developer platforms, and high-scale distributed systems. As VP of Platform and Founding Member at Skyramp and a longstanding leadership advisor, he helps engineering organizations modernize platforms, embrace Kubernetes/OpenShift ecosystems, and elevate developer experience. His career spans leadership roles at Twitch, Caffeine, Vera Security, J3 Resources, and multiple startups, delivering end-to-end platform transformations, SRE maturity, and scalable, observable architectures for millions of users. He specializes in engineering leadership, site reliability, operational excellence, and hands-on platform engineering—often coaching teams and executives to work smarter before harder, with a focus on culture and empowerment. Jacob also brings entrepreneurial and advisory experience across startups, defense-related work, and venture ecosystems, informed by a founder's mindset from PoyeNetLabs and PoyeFutures. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he combines deep technical breadth with a passion for turning complex requirements into practical, auditable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BSIS, Interdisciplinary Studies, BSIS, Interdisciplinary Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas
Github Skills (56)
thrift-protocol10
twitch9
docker8
rest8
kubernetes8
testing8
thrift8
specification7
go7
test-automation7
grpc7
cloud-native6
javascript6
xvfb5
scheduling5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
letsramp/helm
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
Helm chart for Mocker
Contributions:20 reviews, 214 PRs, 140 pushes in 2 years
letsramp/client-go
Feb 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:24 PRs, 8 pushes, 24 branches in 1 year
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