I build 0→1, and scale to millions, without missteps.
I’m co-founder and CTO of RaveWave, the digital home for the global EDM community, built by ravers for ravers. RaveWave is live on the App Store and Google Play, starting with event discovery and a festival schedule builder that lets you plan the sets you want to see. From there we’re expanding into social, trip planning, ticketing and creator commerce, all in one app. We build community offline too: our meetup with 3D Art Lab at North Coast 2026 drew roughly 500 ravers. I lead engineering and product across iOS and Android.
I’ve spent my career building real-time, connected products. At Meta I led client infrastructure for real-time communication on the Orion AR glasses (video calling, audio, avatars and real-time games), integrated the MSYS messaging library across C++, Kotlin, React Native and Dart, and shipped Messenger video features used by hundreds of millions. Before that I led mobile at Jimmy John’s, building an in-house team and an app serving 1.5M+ monthly users, and built Bluetooth LE hardware integrations at John Deere.
I’m part of the scene RaveWave serves: I run KandiWooks, a 3D-printed festival accessories brand, and built Firefly, an open source LoRa mesh compass for off-grid messaging at festivals.
- Now
- Co-founder & CTO · RaveWave
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Previously
- Decision Engineer · Fluidstack
- Before that
- Tech Lead, AR/VR · Meta
- Based in
- Seattle, WA
- Focus
- EDM community · mobile · real-time
- Strength
- 0→1 · scale · quality-first
- Contact
- jakeholland@me.com
RaveWave
Co-founder & CTO
Fluidstack
Decision Engineer
Meta
VR / AR / iOS Software Engineer
Jimmy John’s
Lead Mobile Developer
John Deere
Mobile Developer / Scrum Master
GROWMARK
Mobile Software Developer
Let’s build something.
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