Jake Trent
Senior Software Engineer at Pluralsight
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Trent is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience, currently shaping frontend and platform UI at Angel Studios while mentoring teams and fostering cross-discipline collaboration. He has led Platform UI at Pluralsight and contributed as an author there since 2015, reflecting a strong blend of hands-on engineering and technical thought leadership. In addition to his current role, he works as a Consultant at Lickety Bit LLC and previously served as Principal Engineer at Tomo, showcasing versatility across startups and scale. A passionate open-source contributor, his work includes building reusable UI components like a React-based SocialIcon library and enhancing the HTML webpack template for better mobile and deployment workflows. Beyond code, he writes, speaks, and mentors through jaketrent.com and speaking decks, underscoring a commitment to lifelong learning and nurturing developer communities.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Brigham Young University-Idaho
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
css10
webpack10
svg10
front-end-development10
webpacker10
html10
react10
ajax9
json9
google-analytics7
ejs7
heroku6
asp-net6
jquery6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jaketrent/html-webpack-template
Dec 2014 - Mar 2021
a better default template for html-webpack-plugin
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 79 commits, 34 PRs in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jake primarily contributed to enhancing the HTML webpack template. Their work involved adding features such as mobile responsiveness, Google Analytics integration, and a dev server option. They also implemented support for custom app mount points, and injecting external scripts and links. Furthermore, the user refactored the template to support HTMLWebpackPlugin@2 and added support for inline manifest, baseHref, and lang options.
webpack-pluginhtml-webpack-pluginwebpack4webpackhtml-webpack
couetilc/react-social-icons
Mar 2015 - Feb 2019
svg social icons in react
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 101 commits, 19 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jake's contributions primarily focused on developing UI components for displaying social icons. They added a SocialIcon component and its subcomponents (Icon, Mask, Background) to handle icon rendering. The user also refactored the SocialIcon component to use SVG elements directly. They also added the example page with a library and adjusted the styles for sizes.
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