Dr Jacob Cable

AI/ML Engineer & Software Architect

Staff Engineer at Invertase, leading development on Firebase Functions, Extensions, and Genkit. Freelance AI/ML engineer specializing in generative AI and computer vision. Building scalable AI solutions and maintaining high-profile open source projects.

Staff Engineer at Invertase • Leading Firebase & Google Cloud Development
Freelance AI/ML Engineer • Building Generative AI & Computer Vision Solutions
MMath Mathematics • University of Oxford (First Class Honours)
PhD in Mathematics • University of Manchester
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Technologies

Drag and play with my tech stack

TypeScript6 years
Python
Rust
Go
Java
dart
React
Next.js
Node.js
Astro.js
Remix
Angular
GCP
Firebase
AWS
Cloudflare
Docker
Firestore
BigQuery
PostgreSQL
Redis
Supabase
Neon
Vector DBs

Work Experience

Building innovative solutions at scale

Freelance Work/Side Projects

Software EngineerRemote, DevonAug 2024 – Present
RustAI/MLNext.jsGCPCloudflare
  • ▸Building CLI (written in Rust) to transform monolithic PRs into atomic commits
  • ▸Orchestrated and developed Generative AI/Computer Vision API for a medical use-case
  • ▸Building full-stack AI video processing app (Cloudflare Stream/Workers AI, Next.js, Neon)
  • ▸Building scalable data replication SaaS from Google Cloud Firestore to Google Cloud BigQuery

Invertase

Staff Software EngineerRemote, Devon/ManchesterJun 2025 – Present
8,400+
GitHub Stars
Senior Software Engineer•Sep 2024 – Jun 2025
Software Engineer•Aug 2021 – Sep 2024
TypeScriptFirebaseReactPythonGo
  • ▸Leading development on contracts with high profile clients, including Firebase Functions, Firebase Extensions, Firebase Genkit, and Google Cloud MemoryStore
  • ▸Leading maintenance of open source GitHub repositories totaling 8,400+ stars, including firebase-tools (4.1K), firebase-functions (1K), and firebase-extensions (900+)
  • ▸Consultant on the design of Firebase Genkit AI SDK (announced at Google I/O 2024) during pre-release
  • ▸Developed AI Firebase Extensions integrating Google's PaLM/Gemini APIs with Firebase services, featured in Google I/O 2023 keynote
  • ▸Performed maintenance on open source projects written in TypeScript, Python, Dart, Go, Java
  • ▸Built Apache Beam pipelines for data replication at scale
  • ▸Designed and implemented RAG solutions using major vector databases for enterprise clients
  • ▸Conducted R&D on fine-tuning LLMs for domain-specific applications
  • ▸Built and maintained full-stack applications and open source libraries using modern web technologies
  • ▸Designed automated pipeline to track key metrics and SLA adherence for client reporting