Jaco Joubert
Staff Software Engineer at Workiva
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJaco Joubert is a staff software engineer and entrepreneur with 15 years of experience building product-focused web applications and UX-driven engineering teams. He has spent the last four-plus years dedicated to the Internal Audit space—first at AuditBoard and then founding Kansaro, which was acquired—bringing product empathy and domain expertise to complex compliance workflows. Jaco blends front-end craftsmanship (notably accessibility improvements to Ember sortable UI primitives) with full-product thinking born from founding multiple startups, including a long-running payments platform that processed over $38M via word-of-mouth growth. Now at Workiva, he focuses on delivering scalable, auditable solutions while mentoring engineers and shaping product direction. Trained as a graphic designer, he pairs design sensibility with robust engineering practices to make complex systems more usable. Based in Old Toronto, he’s equally at home shipping polished interfaces and architecting backend reliability for regulated enterprise customers.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Graphic Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Graphic Design at York University
Github Skills (13)
accessibility10
acessibility10
emberjs10
javascript10
acc10
accessibilityservice10
ember-testing9
testing9
ui-design9
front-end-development9
uid9
html8
css7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
adopted-ember-addons/ember-sortable
Jun 2021 - Oct 2021
Sortable UI primitives for Ember.js
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 27 commits, 4 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jaco primarily contributed to the user interface elements of the Ember.js sortable component. They added features for accessibility, including screen reader announcements and keyboard controls. The user also integrated and tested new functionality, such as a disabled state for the sorting group and individual items. They updated existing documentation and examples within the dummy app to reflect the new features and improved testing scenarios.
ember-addonui-primitivessortableemberjsember
prototypal-io/untitled-ui
May 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:111 commits, 16 PRs, 92 pushes in 1 month
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