Jack Lot

Jack Lot

Hi. I'm Jack Lot Raghav.

A Brooklyn-based senior engineer and engineering manager, 10+ years. I ran video-on-demand and live streaming services for Amazon AWS, then left to build LearnGit.io.

Front-end
JavaScript (React, Redux) HTML CSS (SASS)
Back-end
Ruby on Rails Relational databases (SQL) CMS (Contentful)
Architecture
Cloud infrastructure (AWS) Web protocols & API design (REST, GraphQL)
Misc
Sketch/Figma Final Cut Pro Apple Motion

II. Projects


I play music sometimes soundcloud.com/jcklot Woodworking Some things I've built I volunteer hosting a yearly community block party in Seattle pigpit.family We periodically run open mics in Brooklyn Latest show recordings

III. Selected writing

20260910
What's inside a commit? A fun intro to Git internals
20240610
Why I left Amazon after 7 years
20240308
From teenage dream to digital reality

IV. CV

Résumé

  1. LearnGit.io New York, NY

    Founder – Present

    Built and run a learning platform for software developers.

    • 1.2k educators and individual learners
    • Payments, auth, video streaming, funnel telemetry, and email sequences
    • 2.1k newsletter readers, 44k YouTube subscribers
    • Gross revenue: $xx,xxx (2024), $xx,xxx (2025), $xx,xxx YTD (2026)

  2. AWS New York, NY

    Software Engineering Manager L6 –

    Ran video-on-demand and live streaming for Amazon AWS.

    • 1MM+ customers, 15MM+ views monthly
    • Grew a distributed NYC and Seattle team from 3 to 7 engineers
    • Owned vision, strategy, and roadmap

  3. Amazon.com Seattle, WA

    Software Engineer L5 –

    Built distributed systems for digital survey data at scale.

    • 350k customers, 100MM+ records
    • ReactJS, Ruby on Rails, AWS, Elasticsearch
    • Tech lead: mentoring, design review, deployment infrastructure

  4. Amazon.com Seattle, WA

    Software Engineering Intern –

    Kindle Direct Publishing ingestion pipeline.

    • Ruby on Rails and BaconJS to intake, inspect, and publish e-books

  5. University of Maryland College Park, MD

    B.S. Computer Science

V. Contact

Jack Lot