Jacob.
About Me
I am a software developer with a passion for full-stack web development. I enjoy tinkering with tools and technologies.
In my spare time I’m either training Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu, climbing up walls, engaging in photography, or playing video games.
Experience
Experience:
- Led engineering team for Reputation and Social Media Management at IDShield, a US based Identity Protection and Security service within PPLSI with over 1M paying customers
- Delivered features end to end following acquisition, which led to IDShield winning ‘Best Social Media Protection’ at the 2023 Cyber Security Awards
- Built REST APIs and supporting documentation using Django Rest Framework and OpenAPI
- Designed CI/CD workflows using CodeFresh and Gitlab
- Managed software integration projects, one team using React, and the other writing APIs in Python
- Redesigned product UI based on consumer feedback using TailwindCSS
- Refactored UI with 100s of pages to match parent company design system on Figma
- Interfaced with social media APIs (TikTok, Reddit)
- Administered remote systems via SSH
Skills:
- Python, Django, Pytest, Celery, Tailwind CSS, JavaScript, JWT, RESTAPIs, Docker, Kubernetes, DjangoRestFramework, OpenAPI, CodeFresh, AWS
Experience:
- Developed a Consumer SaaS application at a startup from initial concept, to revenue generation and successful exit and 20,000 paying customers
- Owned the development of new features, with strong attention to detail and focus on user behaviour
- Built responsive UIs, started with a single page prototype, which got integrated into the main product
- Designed Rest APIs using FastAPI for integrating with web scrapers
- Learnt unit testing and increased test coverage of product from 60% to 90% using Pytest
- Integrated application with several APIs (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, RapidAPI)
Skills:
- Python, Django, Pytest, Celery, FastAPI, Tailwind CSS, JavaScript
Experience:
- Provided customer support via Intercom chat
- Developed features for a full stack web application written in React, Angular, and Python
- Built data aggregation and publishing pipeline using Python BeautifulSoup library, and stored the results in an online spreadsheet
Skills:
- React, Angular, TypeScript, Python, Flask, Bootstrap
Education
2016 - 2019