Jake Abel

Jake Abel has a diverse work experience in the field of software engineering and automation. Jake started their career at Purdue University as an Electrical Engineering Masters Student, specializing in Control systems and Digital Signal Processing. During this time, they conducted research on distributed control for energy-efficient buildings and gained proficiency in MATLAB.

After completing their degree, Jake joined ArcelorMittal as a Process Automation Engineer. Here, they developed and implemented software solutions to improve operation performance and consistency. Jake also resolved issues in servers, databases, and supervisory systems, and integrated third-party software solutions into plant systems.

Seeking new challenges, Jake then joined AVEVA as a Software Developer. Jake was responsible for developing the back-end of a predictive analytics platform, including the SQL Server Database, core libraries, data processing engine, security, and REST API. Jake also took the lead on larger projects, designed standalone and integrated features, and conducted load testing to optimize performance.

At AVEVA, Jake also served as a Senior Technical Solutions Engineer. Jake communicated with customers to troubleshoot software installations, identified root causes of issues, and built and maintained test environments. Additionally, they worked on projects to convert customer databases from Oracle to SQL Server.

After AVEVA, Jake joined Higi as a Senior Software Engineer. In this role, they were part of a lean team responsible for an Azure microservice backend for smart blood pressure machines, websites, and a mobile app. Jake designed security solutions to protect user health data and resolved production issues by recommending process changes and coding fixes.

Currently, Jake Abel works at DuckDuckGo as a Senior Software Engineer. The details about their role in this company have not been provided.

Jake Abel completed their Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Washington State University, where they studied from 2005 to 2009. Jake then pursued a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering at Purdue University from 2010 to 2012.