Christopher Jacobs
Senior Software Engineer at Origin Protocol
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Jacobs is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Jose with two decades of hands-on experience and over a decade focused on building full-stack, scalable systems. He blends front-end expertise in TypeScript and React with backend strengths in Node.js, cloud services, CI/CD and container orchestration, and has driven reliability improvements and automation at enterprise scale. Christopher has held senior technical and management roles across storage and security firms—spearheading test and manufacturing software for SSDs, architecting diagnostics and AWS-backed services for storage appliances, and improving release reliability to near 99.8%. He contributes to open source—enhancing lebab’s ES5→ES6 class transformations—demonstrating a taste for tooling that modernizes legacy codebases. Known for digging into root causes early, he pairs pragmatic problem-solving with a history of turning troubled teams and systems into high-performing, maintainable platforms. He brings a practical, systems-oriented mindset that connects firmware-level fixes through to user-facing web apps.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at Tunxis Community College
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (14)
javascript10
s610
testing10
compiler-compiler9
compiler9
angularjs6
unit-testing6
jasmine6
npm6
nodejs6
settimeout6
fsevents6
webpack6
react6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
lebab/lebab
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Turn your ES5 code into readable ES6. Lebab does the opposite of what Babel does.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:42 commits, 3 PRs, 33 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the `lebab/lebab` repository by enhancing the class transformation functionality. Their work included implementing and testing the transformation of `util.inherits` calls into ES6 class inheritance using `extends`. They also refactored the codebase by changing the inheritance matching logic and added additional tests for different inheritance scenarios. Furthermore, the user fixed tests to account for changes in the underlying Recast library.
compilerresolvelebabcodemodcommonjs
apexearth/user-input-mapping
Apr 2016 - Jun 2019
Contributions:17 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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