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Brian Jacokes
Engineering Manager
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Location: Greater BostonApprox. Years of Experience: 17
Brian Jacokes's Current Workplace
Plaid
Company Size
1001-2500
Amount Raised
$734.3M
Plaid is a data network that powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. Plaid works with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, and Betterment, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers more than 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company was founded in 2013 by Zach Perret and William Hockey.
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Notable Investors
Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Norwest Venture Partners
FinTech
Banking
Finance
Payments
Personal Finance
Financial Services
Developer Platform
Cloud Data Services
Experience
Plaid
Dec 2017 - Present
Engineering Manager
Mar 2021 - Present
4 yrs 4 mos
Software Engineer
Dec 2017 - Mar 2021
3 yrs 4 mos
I've helped to build and scale the platform that powers our bank integrations and product teams at Plaid. * Rewrote the infrastructure of our integrations service to support easier scaling and faster development * Identified and advocated for service quality improvements, including better data quality and lower unlink rates. * Helped to scale our product scheduling service, which manages over 90% of Plaid's integration traffic. * Helped to design and build the first version of Flexible Link: https://plaid.com/blog/a-new-architecture-for-plaid-link-server-driven-ui-with-directed-graphs/ At various times, I've also been the lead of our engineering blog and reliability working group. * Reliability: Spearheaded proactive and leveraged reliability work across the engineering organization. Worked with account executives, support, and legal to iterate on our incident response process. * Blog: Led a team that shipped monthly eng posts, worked with marketing to drive inbounds and analyze traffic, and worked with recruiting to help surface relevant content to candidates.
Software Engineer
Bolt
Jan 2016 - May 2017
1 yr 5 mos
I joined when the team was under 10 people and Bolt Checkout was pre-launch. I worked across the backend and frontend to bring our product to market and onboard our first ten merchants. * Integrated with our payment processor * Integrated with upstream ecommerce platforms like BigCommerce and Shopify * Built the first version of our internal risk decisioning engine * Implemented several checkout flows in the frontend
Software Engineer
Dropbox
Jul 2013 - Jan 2016
2 yrs 7 mos
Team Cash (monetization and billing): Worked on a small team to build out our billing system and drive higher conversion. * Helped build the first version of our gateway-agnostic billing system * Designed and implemented systems for promotional pricing, price testing, gift cards, and billing invoices Project Aloha: worked on a novel approach for improving signup conversion for Android users of Dropbox, requiring work across the backend and Android app. Shipped as Dropbox Connect: https://help.dropbox.com/installs-integrations/mobile/connect-computer
Software Engineer
Parse
Jan 2012 - Jul 2013
1 yr 7 mos
I joined as the third engineer at Parse, and helped to build and scale our push notification and hosting products. Parse was acquired by Facebook in April 2013.
Software Engineer
Google
Sep 2009 - Jan 2012
2 yrs 5 mos
Financial Technology Associate
Citadel Investment Group
Jul 2008 - Sep 2009
1 yr 3 mos
Education
  • 2007 - 2008
    Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Science
  • 2004 - 2008
    Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBS, Mathematics, Computer Science