Ben Jacobs
Vice President Of Engineering at Encamp
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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Top SchoolBen Jacobs is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building high-performance web and TV user interfaces and now serves as Vice President of Engineering at Encamp. He combines startup grit with enterprise-grade execution from four years on Netflix’s Television UI team to leading product and platform efforts for Environmental Health & Safety SaaS. Ben is skilled at shipping user-focused front-end architectures, coordinating cross-functional teams, and evolving legacy systems into modern client/server designs. He has worn hands-on roles from senior front-end developer and instructor to CTO and technical advisor, reflecting a balance of mentorship and tactical delivery. Based in New Orleans, he brings an early hacker’s curiosity—assembling a Linux 486 at 13—into pragmatic product thinking that simplifies complex regulatory workflows.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), English Language and Literature, General, Bachelor of Arts (BA), English Language and Literature, General at Goshen CollegeOregon Extension
French
Stackoverflow
2,526reputation
583kreached
38answers
25questions
angularjs
top-5%
Github Skills (46)
aws-fargate9
testing9
authentication9
aws-appsync9
lambda-functions9
facebook9
custom-domain9
aws-lambda9
angularjs9
aws-amplify9
aws9
api9
smart-table9
web-development8
graphql8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
benmj/cowtris
Sep 2012 - Oct 2022
A falling block game with cows.
Contributions:64 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 10 years 2 months
game
benmj/angular-browserify-lazy
Oct 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:11 commits, 1 push in 3 months
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