Jacob Abel
Principal Automation Engineer
San Diego Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolJacob Abel is a Principal Automation Engineer with 11 years of multidisciplinary experience blending industrial automation, edge computing, and software engineering from San Diego. He drives real-time performance and product quality for virtual PLC (vPLC) platforms, bringing hands-on expertise in PLC/HMI programming, mechanical and electrical design, and systems commissioning. Jacob has led product strategy and business development in flow measurement, negotiated international partnerships, and served in CIO and IT roles implementing integrations and Linux infrastructure. An active contributor to core open-source tooling, he enhanced Git’s worktree functionality—demonstrating deep familiarity with version control internals beyond typical automation work. He pairs an Ohio State mechanical engineering degree with an MBA, enabling him to translate technical complexity into customer-focused solutions and commercial growth. Colleagues describe him as a technologist who moves comfortably between field hardware, embedded control logic, and back-end software.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at The University of Texas Permian BasinBachelor of Science - BS Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Mechanical Engineering at The Ohio State University
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (14)
c1710
command-line10
command-line-interface10
git10
shell10
internals10
c1110
cli10
testing10
refactoring8
fest7
java6
javafx6
swing6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
git/git
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jacob focused on enhancing the "git" source code, specifically the "worktree add" functionality. They implemented features like the `--orphan` flag to create orphan branches when adding a worktree, added related tests, and improved the user experience by including warnings and hints for common issues. Their work demonstrates a deep understanding of Git's internals and its worktree management capabilities. They also fixed typos and refined existing tests to ensure accurate command behavior.
hacklanggit-clientmercurialfollowlibgit2
OneDeuxTriSeiGo/openpinebuds-source-reconstruction
Nov 2023 - Mar 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 98 pushes, 50 branches in 4 months
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