Jake Morales

Software Engineer

Building things for the web. Passionate about clean code and great user experiences.

Work Experience

Coinbase Inc. — Jan 2022 – Present

Extracted 6 critical endpoints from a Rails monolith to Golang microservices and migrated 3 backend services from EC2 to Kubernetes, reducing infrastructure costs by 70%
Developed an LLM-based document validation system for business onboarding, achieving 76% validation accuracy through iterative prompt optimization
Eliminated a critical trading latency bottleneck by implementing write-through cache, reducing P99 latency from 150ms to 20ms

Coinbase Inc. — Aug 2020 – Dec 2021

Led a 3-engineer team to collect identity verification data from 1.5 million German customers, ensuring regulatory compliance and uninterrupted trading
Established service observability by building Datadog dashboards and monitors tracking latency, error rates, and resource utilization
Maintained operational excellence through on-call rotations, incident triage, and post-mortem documentation

Ruckbau — Mar 2020 – Aug 2020

Built Amazon QuickSight Business Intelligence dashboards for wine distributor clients
Developed a complete web application for locating nearby wine vendors

University of California, Riverside — Sep 2014 – Jun 2018

USC Volunteer Technical Staff

USC Dornsife Mind & Society Center

Set up data infrastructure for graduate researchers, including Metabase dashboards and a cloud-hosted RStudio Server on AWS.

Matcha Interactive Guide

An interactive guide to the world of matcha

Currently under development.

Bird Watching Mobile App

A personal app for logging and identifying bird sightings

Currently under development.