Gino Jacob
Lead Engineer, Accessibility at Upstatement
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGino Jacob is a lead engineer specializing in web accessibility and inclusive product design, with eight years of experience building multisite platforms, design systems, and web applications using React, Next.js, Vue, WordPress, Craft, and headless CMSs. Based in Boston and a Northeastern graduate, he leads accessibility strategy at Upstatement—establishing QA, audit processes, and developer education to raise WCAG compliance across client projects. He pairs hands-on engineering with people development, having hired and mentored apprentices in React, agile delivery, and client-facing skills. Gino also prototypes practical AI tooling—shipping an LLM-powered knowledge base and chatbots—to embed studio-level AI capabilities. His background spans backend systems, data pipelines, and frontend UX, giving him a rare cross-disciplinary fluency that helps turn complex accessibility requirements into scalable, editor-friendly solutions.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Claremont High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science & Design Business Administration minor, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science & Design Business Administration minor at Northeastern UniversityPomona College
English, Chinese, Indonesian, Spanish
Github Skills (63)
browser10
extensible9
nextjs9
craftcms9
php9
api9
control-panel9
summernote9
react9
twig9
mysqli9
prestashop-module8
text-editor8
graphql8
compiler8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
gvjacob/temples
May 2020 - Mar 2021
Automatically generate code from predefined templates. No boilerplate.
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 123 pushes in 10 months
yamltemplate-enginetemplateboilerplateconsole
gvjacob/chef
May 2019 - Aug 2019
Chef is an all-in-one platform for aspiring and veteran chefs alike
Contributions:72 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
all-in-onechefsphpchef
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