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Jake Swanson

Staff engineer. Backend systems, some frontend, lots of phone calls.

Atlanta, GA (678) 719-9096 jakswa@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/jakswa github.com/jakswa

Experience

Staff Engineer Dec 2024 - Present
CallRail — Atlanta, GA

Node.js, TypeScript, WebSockets, OpenAI Realtime API, Twilio, Ruby on Rails

Staff Engineer Oct 2022 - Dec 2024
Grayscale Labs Inc. — Atlanta, GA
Staff Engineer Oct 2014 - Aug 2022
CallRail — Atlanta, GA

Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq, JavaScript, AngularJS

Skills

Languages: Ruby, JavaScript/TypeScript, SQL, HTML/CSS Frameworks: Rails, Node.js, React Infrastructure: PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq, Twilio

Projects

kincall.app — AI that calls your family and shares summaries. Built with Bun, Elysia, Twilio, OpenAI.
marta.io — Real-time Atlanta train arrival dashboard built in Rust. Source on GitHub.

Writing

Education

Georgia Southern University — B.S. in Computer Science
2009 - 2011