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Jacob Drost is an experienced software engineering professional currently serving as the Director of Platform Engineering at Branch since February 2020, where responsibilities include providing architectural oversight of the payment platform and supporting customer integrations. Previous roles at Daugherty Business Solutions included Senior Software Engineer and Associate Consultant, focusing on full-stack development within a scrum team. Jacob's early experience includes an internship at Kohl's as an IT Programmer Analyst, where development of a web application was completed independently, and roles as an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant and Junior Software Engineer at the University of Minnesota and Digi International, respectively. Jacob holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota, completed in 2015.