Jacob Jones

Work Experience

Microservices Architecture: Key player in efforts to scale and optimize our microservices architecture.
Laravel Development: Developed new features and resolved numerous bugs in Laravel ensuring the platform meets strict service level agreements.
Front-end Development: Developed and maintained user interfaces using React, often involving complex state management with technologies such as Redux, Pusher, and web workers.
Technical Debt Reduction: Took the initiative to address technical debt by standardizing the local development environment across the team. Implemented Docker-based solutions to ensure consistency, making it easier for developers to set up and work in a uniform environment.

Authored an extensive analytics & reporting API that performs intricate SQL queries on AWS Timestream. This powers an extensive dashboard consisting of various graphs, metrics, and a customizable report builder.
Developed a configurable Oauth SSO solution in PHP to interface with numerous identity providers.
Wrote several Python modules to sync client data from various content management systems, which was orchestrated by AWS Elastic Container Service and Terraform config files.
Aided the development of generic REST APIs using Django that allow clients to manage their data, slashing the client integration work load by nearly 50%.
Managed and debugged various services and components of infrastructure in AWS such as ECS, CloudFront, API Gateway, CloudWatch, Lambda, S3, SQS, Aurora, DynamoDB.

Worked closely with salon employees, managers, and stakeholders to design and produce a contemporary user interface that streamlines business procedures using JavaFX.
Assisted in the architecture of this system from the ground up which now serves thousands of transactions across a dozen salons every single day.
Wrote business-critical reporting modules including payroll, taxes, commission, and tips.
Automated hundreds of hours of daily work by developing integrations with the services Paychex, Netspend, and QuickBooks.

A React app that glues together the Clerk.dev and Stripe SDKs with an Express API.
Coupled with a Jekyll landing page and blog, hosted on Digital Ocean behind a Nginx reverse proxy.
Authored Docker Compose files to manage the entire stack and dependencies.

Trained and fine-tuned custom GPT2 models to prompt users with product descriptions according to distinct personality archetypes.
Parsed model outputs using sentiment analysis to ensure quality responses.
Integrated Thompson Sampling to match a user with a specific model based on their likes and dislikes.
Wrapped functionality within a React web page and an Express API to provide a frictionless user experience.

A digital playground for hosting my own apps and experimenting with interesting software and tools.
Managing RAID storage arrays, virtual machines, and various home-automation services.