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Jake Cooper

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Founder at Railway
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Jake Cooper is the Founder of Railway, an intelligent cloud provider he built to simplify software deployment for developers. A software engineer by training from the University of Victoria, he previously scaled systems for millions of users at companies like Uber and Bloomberg.

Outside of his entrepreneurial ventures, Jake has a passion for world travel, having worked remotely while exploring Canada, the US, Europe, and Japan. He also seems to enjoy observing nature and drawing business lessons from everyday life, like feeding birds in a park.

Unique fact: He once applied what he learned from feeding birds to better understand B2B SaaS customer acquisition.

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Experience
7 Years
Current Role
Founder
Job Level
Leadership
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
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Priorities

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Developer Experience
His entire company, Railway, is founded on the principle of unburdening developers and improving their experience, a theme from his time at Wolfram and Uber.
Cloud Infrastructure
As the founder of a cloud provider and with a background in scaling systems at Uber, he is deeply involved in building and optimizing infrastructure for developers.
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Career

Work history

6-2020
Founder
Railway
1-2019 - 5-2020
Software Engineer
Uber
Software Engineer
Bloomberg LP
Software Engineer
Wolfram
8-2015 - 12-2015
Software Engineering Intern
Hootsuite Media Inc.
In the press

Media appearances

Jake Cooper – Railway – devtools.fm (Apple Podcasts). Featured in Apple Podcasts / devtools.fm
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Railway Raises $100 Million Series B As AI Pushes Today's Cloud .... Featured in PR Newswire
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Education
2013 - 2017
Software Engineering
University of Victoria
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