About
I'm Jake Prickett, an engineering leader and hands-on builder. Prickles Tech is the home for my consulting work, independent products, technical writing, and experiments.
I started the studio to give small businesses direct access to practical technology guidance and to help focused technical projects move from a fuzzy problem to a working result.
Career experience
This is Jake's professional experience, not a claim about Prickles Tech client work.
Engineering Leader
Built the mobile foundations for automotive applications deployed across 26 countries, leading cross-functional teams through platform architecture, developer experience improvements, and large-scale mobile infrastructure.
Principal Software Engineer
Led engineering teams scaling an ecommerce platform to support an expanding retail and advertisement market across 20+ teams — focused on platform strategy, developer productivity, and agentic development initiatives.
How I work
The right answer may be a plan, a workflow change, an integration, a focused build, or a decision not to add more technology.
I work directly with the people affected by the outcome and remain hands-on when the work moves into implementation.
Founder product
Now building
A warm iPhone and iPad companion that keeps recipes, meal planning, shopping, and guided cooking in sync across a household.
iPhone + iPad
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Technical playground
These are personal technical interests and experiments, not Prickles Tech service offerings.
Reliable services, storage, automation, and the operational work behind them.
Practical network design, physical infrastructure, segmentation, and observability.
Small systems, dedicated Macs, NVIDIA Jetson devices, and experiments at the edge.
Private inference, model serving, context systems, and the hardware-software boundary.
Beyond the work
I'm a husband and dad of two. Away from a screen, I'm usually cooking Italian food, making pizza, fly fishing, golfing, or finding another household system that could be made unnecessarily observable.