Jacob W. is a Software Engineer at Kagi. Colleagues describe him as "Jacob joined our team at Kount as a summer intern and was an invaluable asset during the time he spent with us. He has excellent analytical, coding and infrastructure skills combined with a great attitude and work ethic. After Jacob joined us, we very quickly determined that he was capable of much more important work than the "intern tasks" we had planned for him. We asked him to take the lead on a CI/CD migration project for a number of our core services. This was work which was breaking new ground for the organization and required research and the recommendation of a new architecture and changes to the team's workflow. Jacob worked with our SREs and completed the project with time to spare and at a level of quality which exceeded our expectations. Jacob has my highest recommendation and will be an outstanding resource for any IT organization." and "I had the pleasure of working with Jacob during the summer of 2017 when he accepted a role as my DevOps Intern for the Scentsy IT department. At my company we have a standard programming logic assessment that we give to all Software Engineer Internship candidates. Jacob devised a new and better way of solving the assessment on the spot that even we had not thought of! Needless to say, he did the best out of any of the past 10+ interns with higher education levels that had interviewed with our company before him. In addition to his intellect he also has a great sense of humor. He had us all laughing from the very start of the interview. During the course of his internship he worked closely with me on numerous DevOps related projects. He was an integral part of both the design and implementation for a few complex automated systems. As an engineer with over 10 years of experience, I was consistently impressed by his level of design contribution to these projects, especially for someone who was just starting out in their career. The most notable of the projects was one he completed using Continuous Integration and Powershell with REST API to turn a tedious and error-prone process that previously took over an hour to complete into a single button press that took just 3.5 minutes to complete. We are still using that automated system today and benefiting from the efficiency gains. Jacob is an absolute joy to work with. He is punctual, has a great attitude and sense of humor, takes direction and provides input well, and has an intellect unmatched by many. He has a very promising career in IT ahead of him and I’m sure will bring success to whichever company is lucky enough to hire him. "