Jackson Newhouse

Software Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States

About

Experience

  • Software Engineer at Baseten
    Feb 2026 - Present · 5 mos

  • Software Engineer at AMT
    Apr 2025 - Oct 2025 · 7 mos

    Built out creator sourcing systems for 50+ customers Introduced agentic frameworks, replacing simple structured LLM calls Rewrote vetting platform, reducing costs by 5x and improved reliability from 80% to 99.5%.

  • Software Engineer at InfluxData
    Nov 2024 - Apr 2025 · 6 mos

  • CTO and Co-founder at Arroyo (YC W23)
    Sep 2022 - Jun 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos

    Part of YC W23 batch. SOTA stateful stream processing engine: https://github.com/ArroyoSystems/arroyo Acquired by Cloudflare to power Cloudflare Pipelines.

  • Quantcast (10 yrs 4 mos)
    • Principal Software Engineer
      Oct 2020 - Sep 2022 · 2 yrs

      Continuing to lead development on our proprietary dataset. Lead overhaul of data processing rearchitected across the offline and real-time modeling stacks.

    • Staff Software Engineer
      Feb 2018 - Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      Tech lead and primary developer on an in-house analytics engine responsible for delivering realtime audience insights to customers about their web properties and advertising campaigns. Contributions include * Several compounding 5-10x performance improvements. * Greatly increased the size and variety of datasets, now including over a trillion facts. * Replaced over two dozen batch pipelines in favor of interactive computation. * introduced time-series capabilities.

    • Senior Software Engineer
      Jul 2016 - Feb 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos

      Oversaw a zero-downtime migration of 500+ map-reduce pipelines from a physical datacenter into AWS. Leveraged algorithmic abilities and distributed systems expertise to release a variety of optimizations and improvements to batch computing pipelines and the real-time bidding stack saving hundreds of thousands of dollars annually.