Dave Jacoby
Software Engineer at Purdue University
Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Jacoby is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building web technologies and Unix-based server applications, particularly skilled in Perl and full-stack web development. He has supported genomics research tools at Purdue and delivered enterprise and lab-focused systems for companies like Perceptyx and Vector Solutions, blending domain-focused engineering with practical operations. An active community organizer for Purdue Perl Mongers and Hack Lafayette, he contributes to the Perl Weekly Challenge knowledge base, demonstrating deep algorithmic problem-solving across many languages. Dave pairs legacy systems expertise with modern scripting and JavaScript, often tackling backend automation and data-processing tasks that quietly keep research and production workflows running. Based in Lafayette, Indiana, he brings a rare combination of academic lab experience, industrial controls background, and a curiosity for whatever language "scratches his itches."
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Purdue UniversityBS, Journalism and Mass Communication, BS, Journalism and Mass Communication at South Dakota State University
Stackoverflow
417reputation
21kreached
5answers
6questions
Github Skills (14)
algorithms10
perl10
data-structure9
text-manipulation9
data-structures9
number-theory8
character-encoding6
awk6
bash6
javascript6
sed6
regex6
mysql6
cgi6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
manwar/perlweeklychallenge-club
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
Knowledge base for The Weekly Challenge club members using Perl, Raku, Ada, APL, Awk, Bash, BASIC, Bc, Befunge-93, Bourne Shell, BQN, Brainfuck, C3, C, CESIL, C++, C#, Clojure, COBOL, Coconut, Crystal, D, Dart, Dc, Elm, Emacs Lisp, Erlang, Excel VBA, Fennel, Fish, Forth, Fortran, Gembase, GNAT, Go, Haskell, Haxe, HTML, Idris, IO, J, Janet, Java, JavaScript, Julia, Kotlin, Lisp, Lua, M4, Miranda, Modula 3, MMIX, Mumps, Myrddin, Nim, Nix, Node.js, Nuweb, OCaml, Odin, Ook, Pascal, PHP, Python, Postscript, Prolog, R, Ring, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Scheme, Sed, Smalltalk, SQL, Swift, Tcl, TypeScript, Visual BASIC, WebAssembly, Wolfram, XSLT and Zig.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 290 commits, 279 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Dave primarily worked on coding solutions to the Perl Weekly Challenge, demonstrating a strong understanding of Perl programming. Their contributions focused on implementing various algorithms and problem-solving approaches within the domain of the challenges. They wrote code to implement concepts such as linked lists, binary trees, string manipulation, and number theory.
awkbashbrainfuckclojurecobol
jacoby/fitbit_tools
Jul 2013 - Feb 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 2 pushes in 3 years 7 months
apicollectpythonfitbit-apir-and-python
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