Jacob Loomis

About Jacob Loomis

Summary - Experienced, results-driven technical executive capable of enacting change within large organizations to meet business objectives- Grew and developed multi-varied teams totaling hundreds of SREs/Production Engineers, Business Applications Developers and Analysts, IT Administrators, PMO, SCM Engineers, DBAs and Tools Developers in multiple locations- 24/7 Responsibility for hundreds of thousands of servers serving hundreds of millions of customers across scores of web and mobile applications- Consistent record of meeting performance and availability SLA targets in highly scalable, rapidly changing, high traffic environment- Defined and enacted a set of highly successful best practices establishing new roles, culture, tools, automations, & processes- Drove company-wide change by leveraging proven production engineering embedded model and securing buy-in from varied stakeholders - Dramatically scaled team responsibilities through focus on automation, speed and talent- Demonstrated ability to motivate and engage large, multi-faceted teams

Experience

1. VP Ii, Reliability Engineering

   Akamai Technologies

   Feb 2024 — Present

Education

• Harvard Business School Executive Education

  CTO Forum: Rethinking Strategy - Strategic Leadership of Technology and Innovation

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  BS, Brain & Cognitive Science

Skills

• Itil
• Scalability
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Linux
• Global Operations
• Collaborative Problem Solving
• Cross Functional Relationships
• Big Data
• Continuous Delivery
• Problem Management
• Cloud Computing
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Metrics Driven
• High Availability
• Process Improvement
• Web Services
• Technical Leadership
• E-Commerce
• Incident Management
• Distributed Systems
• Capacity Planning
• Testing
• Perl
• Large Scale Systems
• Web Applications
• Delivering Results
• Databases
• Release Management