Brian Jacobel
United States
Summary
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RockstarBrian Jacobel is a seasoned full-stack developer with 14 years of experience building web applications, currently based in Washington, DC and focused on modern front-end tech like React and ES6. He blends front-end polish with infrastructure and performance thinking, contributing to high-profile open-source projects such as Destiny Item Manager and Open edX where he improved UI/UX, search/autocomplete behavior, and migrated legacy front-end patterns. Comfortable across the stack, he has refactored front-end architectures, removed global dependencies, and fixed complex JavaScript/CSS integrations for large education platforms. Brian pairs practical engineering with an interest in journalism, education, and government, often applying UI-level improvements that yield measurable usability and performance gains.
14 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
typescript10
autocomplete10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
backbone8
backbonejs8
css8
testing8
pip6
mongodb6
ruby-on-rails6
homebrew6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
openedx/edx-platform
Mar 2016 - May 2017
The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:272 commits, 210 PRs, 610 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Brian's contributions primarily focused on refactoring and updating the front-end components and styling of the Open edX LMS. Their work involved removing global dependencies and migrating existing features to the Mako templating engine. Furthermore, they were involved in fixing Javascript issues to integrate with the newly designed CSS.
edxlmssitesbackend-serviceopen-edx
DestinyItemManager/DIM
Jul 2022 - Sep 2022
Destiny Item Manager
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 20 commits, 5 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Brian primarily focused on improving the user interface of the Destiny Item Manager (DIM) application. They implemented features related to the search functionality, including adjusting the display of search boxes to prevent off-screen rendering, creating a maximum height for the search results menu, and incorporating a visual viewport check. The user also added and updated unit tests for the autocomplete feature, as well as refactoring and enhancing existing functionality.
reactbungieitemdestinytypescript
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