Jacob Smith
Summary
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SeniorJacob Smith is a backend-focused software engineer with nine years of experience delivering scalable services across SaaS, healthcare, and automotive platforms. He is currently at Smartcar, building cloud-native backend features and contributing to a distributed microservices stack. His prior roles at Newsela and Change Healthcare showcase a versatile toolkit—from building and deploying components with JavaScript, ES6, and Next.js to designing Django REST APIs and maintaining Go-based microservices with Elasticsearch. He has leadership experience, having led a five-person team in Agile development at Change Healthcare and collaborating across teams to meet deadlines, while deploying on AWS Fargate and using Terraform for infrastructure. Based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, he holds a Nashville Software School certificate and a B.S. in Mass Communications from MTSU, reflecting a strong communication backbone alongside technical depth. His unique blend of media and software backgrounds informs a thoughtful, user-centric approach to APIs, UI integration, and accessibility standards.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (3)
react4
javascript3
scalable2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
JacobASmith/VEGA
Oct 2019 - Sep 2020
A scalable tour guide to accomplish any task on the web!
Contributions:3 PRs, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
scalablejavascriptreacttour-guide
JacobASmith/embit
Aug 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:37 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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