David Jacobs
Product Director at Portfolio
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Jacobs is a seasoned product leader and founder with over two decades building and scaling digital publishing and media products, currently driving technical product strategy at Amazon from New York. He combines hands-on engineering roots (Perl and early streaming architectures) with executive product experience leading teams that power some of the largest local news sites, mobile apps, and platform partnerships at Advance Local. As CEO and founder of 29th Street Publishing and Letterpunch, he launched high‑traffic multi-platform products, navigated transitions from ad-supported to subscription models, and has a track record of shipping constrained-budget, deadline-driven projects. He’s comfortable at the intersection of product, engineering and business development—having negotiated platform deals with Apple, Google and Facebook and modernized developer and organizational practices. Notably, his career spans both deep technical work (building parsers and social plugins) and broad product leadership, making him adept at turning complex editorial and technical challenges into scalable reader-focused experiences.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
High School Degree, High School Degree at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & TechnologyBA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at Oberlin College
Github Skills (3)
push-notifications10
python9
slack1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
djacobs/PyAPNs
Jun 2013 - May 2018
Python library for interacting with the Apple Push Notification service (APNs)
Contributions:38 commits, 21 PRs, 16 pushes in 5 years
push-notificationspython
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