👋 Hey there! I'm Jake - the Engineering Manager for Canvas at Zapier.

Professionally, I'm an engineer with a deep interest in building - whether that's building a product or building a team. Outside of work, I'm an adventurous extravert who likes trying new foods, music and shows. My main interests are things outside whether it's surfing, skiing, or hiking.

🏄‍♂️ how I work

🙏 my values

• minimal process
• strong opinions, loosely held
• question everything, disrupt our assumptions
• customer and data driven development
• simple > clever
• communication should be concise
• collaboration is key
• extreme programming
• thoughtfulness

💪 my strengths

• technical guidance with architecture or AI
• soft skills coaching
• creating a collaborative team culture
• cross team leadership
• conflict resolution and relationship management

🌱 my growth areas

• our team is growing rapidly, so managing our fast customer-value delivery pace in 2025
• building a stronger birds-eye view

☎️ communicating with me

📺 channels

• slack is the best way to reach me
• send a DM or @ me where you need input
• for longer or more nuanced discussions I love impromptu zooms/huddles

🕖 time

• I work 8-4 Pacific Time
• I keep my calendar up to date so when booking over meetings please ask first
• I try to keep the later part of my week light on meetings to provide focus time

⛵️ 1:1s with direct reports

• my primary goal is to support you - as such I leave the agenda largely up to you
• our 1:1s can have as much or as little structure as you would like
• when requesting feedback, I can provide the best feedback if you’re specific
• for example: “Could you give me feedback on ___ MR, I want to know what you think about how I designed ___ function” will get better feedback from me than “Could you give me feedback on MRs”
• anything sensitive we discuss is within our circle of trust
• it’s important to me to have personal relationships with the people I work with, I love talking about things outside of work

final note

this readme is a work in progress, so if there is something you'd like to know please ask!

thank you for taking the time to read my readme