IT Support Specialist at The Potomac School in McLean, Virginia. Computer science graduate, University of Pittsburgh, 2025. Days go to endpoints, identity, and access in a school environment; the rest goes to practical tools and historical-records projects.
Current focus
- SAM Doctor: local, evidence-first diagnostics for failed AWS SAM, CDK, CloudFormation, and GitHub Actions deployments. On PyPI, with a GitHub Action.
- AKT Reader: a local, open-weights reader for handwritten 19th-century Polish and Russian civil registers, with an evidence lab and a benchmark corpus in preparation.
- Home lab: Linux, Docker, a local Kubernetes cluster, and the network that ties them together.
Elsewhere
- Site and field notes: jacobgoldstein.dev
- LinkedIn: jacob-barnes-goldstein
- Email: jacobgoldstein.cs@gmail.com


