Hi, I'm Jacob — a developer, optimist, and crypto enthusiast.

Notes on engineering, finance, and the occasional tangent.

Writing

• The Good, The Bad, The Ugly of Being a Data Engineer2025-10-09
• How I Lost $300K on ESOP at 24 and What Came After2024-12-09
• What is Settlus?2024-11-01
• Understanding the Math behind Decentralized Exchanges2024-10-01
• Manage multi-region EKS the Declarative Way - Part 0: Introduction2022-10-10
• Manage multi-region EKS the Declarative Way - Part 1: Central Infrastructure2022-10-11
• Manage multi-region EKS the Declarative Way - Part 2: Central Helm2022-10-12
• Manage multi-region EKS the Declarative Way - Part 3: Dev & Prod Clusters2022-10-13
• Manage multi-region EKS the Declarative Way - Part 4: CI/CD2022-10-14