jake sciotto
boulder, co
engineer by training, problem solver by trade, terminally online millenial by choice
about (in order of importance)
- brazilian jiu jitsu blue belt & strongest man alive
- semi-neurotic highly technical problem solver
- coaching lacrosse & bjj since 2009 - the nick saban of youth sports (self-appointed)
- 200-hour certified yoga teacher (for no reason)
- "smartest guy i have ever met" - my wife
- has two master's degrees - this debt is not going to pay for itself
- alumni mentor at johns hopkins - tough explaining my 7 years in undergrad
technical capabilities
- cloud architecture: serverless + event-driven, iac tools, containerized workloads (i blew up an old macbook putting microk8s on it)
- programming: python, sql, javascript, java, c++, r - in order of decreasing confidence
- stats: regression (linear, logistic, regularized), predictive modeling, time series analysis - 2x fantasy football champion (model-driven, vibe-informed)
- machine learning: scikit-learn, xgboost, pytorch/tensorflow - tabular models, forecasting, and applied ml
- data platforms & analytics: snowflake/bigquery, streaming pipelines, semantic layers, bi tooling - do not ever ask me about a pie chart
- ai & llm systems: cag, rag, vector dbs, prompt versioning, caching, token-level cost controls for prod workloads
- finops: framework, chargeback/showback models, genai cost optimization (agentic / usage-aware)
employment history (selected highlights)
staff technical account manager | cloudzero
staff → jan 2026 - present
senior → dec 2024 - dec 2025
- nicknamed "mr figure shit out"
- building bleeding edge finops solutions as the linchpin between business and technology (trademark pending on this phrase)
enterprise implementation manager | arcadia
dec 2022 - dec 2024
implemented healthcare software, coordinated cross-functional teams, led training and change management at big boy scale - what's the deal with healthcare
senior implementation manager | carevalidate
dec 2020 - dec 2022
led covid-19 solution implementations for hundreds of thousands of users, designed creative solutions for evolving requirements - should have invested in zoom
faculty | kennesaw state university
aug 2020 - dec 2022
taught computing infrastructure and networking, consulted for healthcare research - they gave me a podium and students showed up
senior data analyst | vestra logistics
aug 2018 - dec 2019
built power bi dashboards, developed transparent pricing strategy, performed statistical analysis - made pretty charts so people felt informed
freelance web designer | rednax llc
2014 - 2017 (the before times)
helped 10 small businesses launch websites - if you are reading this i miss php
education
m.s. data science - johns hopkins university (2020-2021)
m.s. information technology - kennesaw state (2019) - solana fellowship recipient
b.s. information technology - kennesaw state (2014-2018)