Jake + Zach
About Jake
Jake was born in San Diego in 1988. He moved around throughout his school years, living in Washington, Alaska and Northern California before ending up in Florida. Jake has a lifelong passion for drums, playing for churches and bands as a teen. He loved computers as a kid and taught himself programming growing up. Jake has a tight-knit family unit and had many unique experiences in his youth including flying airplanes, racing go-karts and rebuilding car engines with his dad. Jake enjoys cooking and has fond memories of baking pies with his mom in his earliest years. He and his sister Jenay were always partners in crime and Jake looks up to her as a role model and an inspiration. Jake began his career in tech the way many do ā by starting a web design business. He went on to run a MySpace āpimp my profileā website. He worked in a startup for six years, sticking with it for two more years after it was acquired. Jake now works as a senior software engineer at Mailchimp. Jakeās favorite pastime is playing video games and his dream is to start a video game studio.
About Zach
In October 1990, Zach was born in Lafayette, Indiana. He grew up with a close group of best friends who all attended the same elementary, middle, and high school. At the age of 15, Zach's guitar teacher introduced him to the world of audio recording and music production software. Finding that audio and music were his passion, Zach and his mom Regina went on a tour of Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida, enrolling shortly after. A month after graduating high school, Zach migrated to Florida where he began his sonic journey, meeting Jake and many friends along the way. In 2014, Zach and Jake uprooted to Atlanta where Zach continues to design sounds, record, produce, mix, and master commercials, TV shows, movies, music, and video games. Zach and Jake now own a house in Atlanta that is walking distance from their jobs. In Zach's spare time, he plays video games with Jake and writes, records, and produces music as a side hobby.
About Us
Jake and Zach met in Orlando in 2011 and shared a common passion for music and audio. Before they started dating, Jake would give Zach drum lessons. On May 18, 2011, shortly after graduating from Full Sail University, Zach asked Jake to be his boyfriend. By September, they had moved in together and worked hard to build their life as a couple. Zach was starting his career in audio. Jake worked from home at a small tech startup and fell in love with Zachās cuddly cat Jones. In 2013, they adopted a new kitten, Midas.
After a few apartments in Orlando, they moved to Atlanta in 2014, where Zach started working as a sound designer at a nearby recording studio. In 2015, they bought their first house together, right by Ponce City Market. In 2016, they had the most romantic time of their lives on a vacation to Seoul, Korea. In 2018, Jake started working at Mailchimp. Soon after, they adopted two lion-hearted kittens, Louie and GD.
Those close to Zach and Jake know that they truly complete each other. They learn and thrive off each other to create something larger than life. In June 2019, Zach and Jake decided to spend the rest of their lives together and couldnāt be happier.