Jake Verbaten

Staff Software Engineer, Uber alumni, fan of distributed systems, performance optimizations and observability.

[Jake Verbaten @Raynos]

@levelsio You need to very carefully find the 9/10 for 400$ which will always be better then a 7.2/10 for 203$ ; IHG Sapporo, st Regis Macao, eastern oriental in Penang. Etc

[Feross @feross]

Today is a big day for @SocketSecurity. We just raised a $60M Series C at a $1B valuation, led by @ThriveCapital with participation from @a16z, @AbstractVC, and @CapitalOne Ventures. Total funding is now $125M.

Four years ago, we started Socket because open source dependencies were flowing into production faster than anyone could vet them. AI has massively accelerated that. Code is being written, shipped, and deployed before any human reads it. Security has to operate at that same speed.

One data point from Thrive's diligence that I keep coming back to: they first discovered Socket because @cursor_ai, @OpenAI, and @AnthropicAI all independently told them it was the most important security tool they'd adopted for AI-driven development. Three of the most sophisticated AI companies converging on the same vendor unprompted.

Since our Series B, Socket has grown to more than 20,000 organizations, protecting over 1.5 million repositories and blocking more than 1,000 supply chain attacks every week. The team is now over 100 people.

Three out of five FAANG companies are Socket customers. So are the companies building the most ambitious AI products: @AnthropicAI, @cursor_ai, @xai, @figma, @vercel, @Replit, @scale_AI, @GustoHQ, @Mercadolibre, and @cribl_io, alongside Fortune 100s in financial services and global media.

What we've shipped since the last round:

• Socket Firewall blocks malicious packages at install time, before they reach a developer's laptop or CI pipeline. Free for everyone.

• Reachability analysis via our acquisition of Coana, eliminating 50-80% of irrelevant vulnerability alerts by focusing only on CVEs that are actually exploitable.

• Socket Certified Patches for remediating exploitable CVEs in seconds without waiting on upstream maintainers.

• Coverage extending to browser extensions, editor extensions, MCP servers, and AI tools via our acquisition of @secureannex.

When the Axios compromise hit, our detection systems flagged the malicious dependency within six minutes. Within 24 hours, more than 2,000 organizations onboarded to Socket to block it.

Where the funding goes: deeper investment in Firewall, massively expanding Certified Patches, moving protection closer to every point of install across the developer toolchain, and new product launches pushing Socket into a category we haven't entered before.

We're hiring across engineering, sales, customer success, and threat intel.

❤️ Thank you to our customers, investors, and the open-source community for your support. Together, we’re making software safer for everyone.

[Jake Verbaten @Raynos]

@michael_chomsky @Claude Oh I just drop the PR link into cursor and say address feedback.

Then review the changes it makes to the branch in the IDE

[Jake Verbaten @Raynos]

@mattshumer_ I'm in.

[Jake Verbaten @Raynos]

@bcomnes Need to go back to jade templates or EJS

[Jake Verbaten @Raynos]

@marclou @aporia9n Matosinhos and Leca da Palmeira on the coast right next to porto are nice.

Ocean views and walking along the coast / beach improves everything.

Access to all of porto too without living on hilly cobble streets.

[Jake Verbaten @Raynos]

The 32gb of RAM you need to run an average nextjs + react watch server now costs 1,000$

Do you reckon people will start caring about resource usage and performance in the JS world or its doomed ?

[Jake Verbaten @Raynos]

@TheJerzWay Black structure

[Jake Verbaten @Raynos]

@saihaj @github make a new github account

[Jake Verbaten @Raynos]

@levelsio @saxobank IBKR is great they are not goons, If you want another hedge you can open a non-resident account at charles Schwab with a minimum of 25,000$ for non americans but access to an american brokerage company.

[Jake Verbaten @Raynos]

@levelsio Theres no going back. It’s like entropy. Low trust society is coming for you.

High trust society is dying.

[Jake Verbaten @Raynos]

@VagabondRTW I feel your pain, I can introduce you to some out of the box thinking consultants that may be able to carve a solution for you.

[Jake Verbaten @Raynos]

@thekitze Pack up and move to an eternal spring good weather location.

Where I’m at in Porto is not bad but it’s too windy and rainy.

[Jake Verbaten @Raynos]

@dscape Sounds like a fun event. I’ve been telling my colleagues and friends this is the first tech conference ticket I’ve booked in 8 years.

[Jake Verbaten @Raynos]

@catalinmpit wait until you here about AI staff engineers making 1,200k a year in san francisco.

[Jake Verbaten @Raynos]

@lxe Who they gonna sell iPhones to other then gen z and gen a ?

[Jake Verbaten @Raynos]

@levelsio @getRewardful @Wise Fly to US and to Singapore and open two real bank accounts.

Or pay everyone in USDC p2p.

[Jake Verbaten @Raynos]

@lxe Raptor 1 to raptor 2 is called webpack to esbuild / bun.

[Aleksey Smolenchuk @lxe]

we need this but for web dev