Jacob O'Quinn

About

Full-stack engineer with strong production ownership across SDK tooling, APIs, and operations. At Statsig, built real-time SDK diagnostics spanning 16 SDKs and improved incident response (40% faster mitigation) with Datadog SLOs/alerting; also shipped an enterprise Console API + interactive OpenAPI-based docs with robust versioning/migration practices. Has early-stage startup experience at Layup Parts, translating AS-9100 compliance needs into production workflows under rapidly changing requirements.

Key Strengths

• Owned end-to-end production feature across frontend, backend, and operations (SDK diagnostics tooling)
• Reduced SEV time-to-mitigation by 40% via instrumentation, SLOs, and alerting
• Scaled a standardized instrumentation layer across 16 SDKs using minimal schema + language-agnostic test framework
• Designed and shipped enterprise-facing API + interactive docs from generated OpenAPI spec
• Strong API lifecycle management (versioning, deprecation, customer comms) for breaking changes like pagination
• Built maintainable API systems with Zod contracts and automated OpenAPI spec generation to speed development
• Implemented reliable third-party data exports/ingestion with observability, backfills, and idempotency safeguards
• Effective in high-ambiguity startup environments; translated compliance requirements (AS-9100) into shippable workflows

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