Jake Swinford

I'm Jake, a software engineer on Amazon's Payment Risk team, protecting Amazon and its customers from fraudsters. I studied physics at UT Arlington, then worked at IBM and at Idaho National Laboratory, where I helped scientists across the national labs share their data. Outside work I build small products and spend the rest of my time lifting, training BJJ and snowboarding.

Experience

  1. Amazon

    2025–

    Software Engineer, Payment Risk

  2. Idaho National Laboratory

    2024–25

    Software Engineer, Scientific Computing & AI

  3. IBM

    2023–24

    Software Engineer

  4. UT Arlington

    2022

    B.S. Physics, minor in Mathematics

Working on

Fig. 1 — z₁⁵ + z₂⁵ = 1 Calabi–Yau quintic, line screen

Based in San Diego

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