The Met Office's Informatics Lab is a specialist team which focuses on solving long term issues within the Met Office by creating prototypes of solutions. A major focus is making the hundreds of terrabytes they produce useful for people. Jacob's role is leading on the technical infrastructure in these projects. This ranges from designing experiments to evaluate new technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Hadoop and Spark, to architecting big data systems on AWS or Azure. He also write, give talks and share the lessons they have learned in the Lab.