Jacob Nash
Summary
Techno-functional solutions architect with 7+ years of customer-facing technical experience. I build high-velocity engineering teams, design scalable cloud systems, and translate technical capabilities into business outcomes — from SaaS and analytics platforms to regulated medical IoT and NIST-compliant infrastructure.
Experience
Parspec — Solutions Architect
San Francisco Bay Area · Mar 2026 – Present
Solution architecture and hands-on engineering leadership for commercial construction software.
Altura Associates — Engineering Manager & Solution Architect
San Francisco Bay Area · Nov 2021 – Mar 2026
- Led senior-leaning engineering teams; mentored engineers from mid-level to senior.
- Standardized architectural patterns, CI/CD, and containerization — deployment from days to minutes.
- Architected RAG systems and AI workflow integrations; drove organizational AI adoption.
- Stayed hands-on on performance-critical code; achieved orders-of-magnitude gains where it mattered.
- Partnered with product and business leaders on discovery, translating customer pain into shipped features.
Newmind Group — Solutions Engineer
Kalamazoo, MI · Mar 2021 – Nov 2021
- Led enterprise network and security implementations for government contractors and commercial clients.
- Implemented NIST-compliant DLP controls; standardized Cisco Meraki architectures.
- Partnered with sales on technical solutions; contributed to 25% department revenue growth.
Stryker — Senior Software Engineer & Technical Lead
Kalamazoo, MI · Feb 2018 – Sep 2020
- Led multinational software team for FDA-regulated Class C medical device launch.
- Owned embedded software design, documentation, integration, and WiFi R&D for surgical devices.
Intel — Automation / Yield Systems Engineer
Chandler, AZ & Rio Rancho, NM · 2015 – 2018
Manufacturing automation, metrics, and data analysis using Python and R; ML-driven process optimization.
Education
B.S. Computer Engineering — University of New Mexico (2011 – 2016)
Skills
Solutions architecture · Engineering management · Python · AWS · Firebase · CI/CD · React · REST APIs · OAuth · Firestore · AI/ML integration · Technical discovery · Pre-sales · NIST compliance