About

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.

Seattle, WA jakeholland@me.com (217) 419-7484
Facts
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
Experience

RaveWave

Co-founder & CTO

Nov 2026 – Present

Fluidstack

Decision Engineer

Aug 2026 – Oct 2026

Meta

VR / AR / iOS Software Engineer

May 2020 – Mar 2026

Jimmy John’s

Lead Mobile Developer

Jan 2018 – May 2020

John Deere

Mobile Developer / Scrum Master

May 2016 – Jan 2018

GROWMARK

Mobile Software Developer

May 2015 – May 2016
EducationBS, Technical Systems Management, Minor in Business, University of Illinois, 2015
Interests
AR/VRiOS & AndroidData-informed decisionsTest-driven developmentMentorshipSCRUMHome automation
Contact

Let’s build something.

Have a project, a question, or a hard problem in mind? Email is the fastest way to reach me — I reply within a day.