Résumé

Senior software engineer in Pittsburgh, working on AI and ad-tech. Previously at Eventbrite and ToneDen.

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Jake Rush

Senior Software Engineer
m.jake.rush@gmail.comjakeru.shPittsburgh, PA

Full-stack product engineer with 7+ years building creator tools, paid media systems, AI-assisted workflows, and reliable web platforms across React, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, and AWS. Strong at turning ambiguous product needs into measurable, production-ready systems.

Experience

Eventbrite

Apr. 2023 — Apr. 2026
Senior Software EngineerRemote
  • AI creator tools: Designed and shipped AI-assisted content and workflow features for event creators, improving the speed and quality of ad campaign setup.
  • Creator product tour: Built a flexible multi-entry product tour system with analytics alignment, increasing conversion from landing to published event by 11.7%.
  • Paid media tracking: Led TikTok pixel support and Google Ads gtag.js modernization across services, shared libraries, and Conversions Manager UI, restoring signal integrity and reducing tracking escalations.
  • Reliability & quality: Resolved creator-impacting reliability issues, completed operational readiness review, authored on-call/audit runbooks, and established Playwright E2E coverage for critical funnels.
  • Cross-functional delivery: Partnered with product, design, data, and marketing stakeholders to move ambiguous creator and advertising workflows from discovery through production launch.

Eventbrite

Nov. 2020 — Mar. 2023
Software Engineer IIRemote
  • Campaign creation platform: Redesigned and shipped a modern React/TypeScript campaign creation workflow, increasing successful campaign creation and improving creator usability.
  • Advertising systems: Built paid marketing features across PostgreSQL, React, and Flux, supporting campaign creation, tracking, optimization, and reporting workflows.
  • Frontend & analytics modernization: Migrated shared UI components into a GitHub Package and modernized analytics libraries, improving cross-team velocity, consistency, and measurement accuracy.
  • Recommendation systems: Built campaign configuration and prediction workflows that helped advertisers choose better audiences, content, and budget inputs during setup.

ToneDen

Oct. 2016 — Nov. 2020
Ad Operations EngineerLos Angeles, CA
  • Marketing automation platform: Helped design and scale ToneDen's marketing automation platform as an early engineering hire, supporting high-volume advertising operations and rapid product growth.
  • Partner integrations & operations: Collaborated with major advertising partners to implement campaign optimization, tracking, reporting, and operational tooling for high-spend customers.
  • Playbooks launch: Helped ship ToneDen Playbooks, a campaign system that unified ads, messaging, and promotions into repeatable launch workflows.

Skills

LanguagesTypeScript, JavaScript, Python, SQL
FrontendReact, Next.js, Webpack, Storybook, Figma
BackendNode.js, PostgreSQL, REST APIs, serverless services
AWSLambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, DynamoDB
QualityPlaywright, Jest, CI checks, operational readiness
ProductCreator tools, paid media tracking, AI-assisted workflows, analytics

Patent & Education

Patent: Optimizing and Predicting Campaign Attributes — matching new advertisers to behavioral cohorts for better recommendations. US 11,127,032 B2.
West Virginia University — B.S. in Industrial Engineering
2011 — 2016