jake sciotto
boulder, co
engineer by training, problem solver by trade, chaos agent by choice
about (in order of importance)
- brazilian jiu jitsu blue belt and kids department head
- semi-neurotic highly technical problem solver
- 200-hour certified yoga teacher
- "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, iaac, containerization (i blew up an old macbook putting microk8s on it)
- languages: python, sql, javascript, java, c++, r - in order of decreasing confidence
- ml frameworks: tensorflow, pytorch, keras, scikit-learn - 70% documentation, 30% intuition
- data platforms & analytics: snowflake/bigquery, streaming, semantic layers, any data viz tool - do not ever ask me about a pie chart
- ai & llm systems: vector dbs, prompt versioning, caching, token-level cost controls
- finops: framework, agentic ai / genai cost optimization, chargeback models
*i send emails for a living but on the side i also build web apps in next/react
*stack overflow access required, six aws/finops certifications available upon request, results may vary
employment history (selected highlights)
senior finops account manager | cloudzero
dec 2024 - present (currently employed, updating portfolio anyway)
managing enterprise cloud spend, partnering with c-suite to optimize costs, applying finops framework to solve expensive problems
enterprise implementation manager | arcadia
dec 2022 - dec 2024
implemented healthcare software, coordinated cross-functional teams, led training and change management - basically made sure doctors could use the software
senior implementation manager | carevalidate
dec 2021 - dec 2022
led covid-19 solution implementations for hundreds of thousands of users, designed creative solutions for evolving requirements - peak pandemic chaos coordination
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 - learned that clients definitely know what they want until you build it
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)
yes, two master's degrees. no, i don't know why either.