Jacob Ambrose
Software Engineer Consultant at Slalom Consulting
Athens-Clarke County Unified Government, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Ambrose is a Software Engineer Consultant with 11 years of experience, currently at Slalom Consulting and consulting on Delta’s Integrated Crew Hub System. He combines backend Ruby on Rails expertise with practical product delivery—evidenced by his work building Saia.com and significant contributions to the World Cube Association’s production site and results pipeline. An active WCA Regional Delegate and Results Team member, he brings domain expertise in competition data validation and anonymization that reflects a strong attention to correctness and edge cases. He also mentors students as a long-time teaching assistant at the University of Georgia, blending pedagogy with hands-on engineering. Based in Athens, GA, Jacob excels at translating complex logical problems into efficient, maintainable solutions and enjoys tackling the subtle constraints that make systems robust.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science, 3.46/4.00, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science, 3.46/4.00 at University of GeorgiaHigh School, 4.09/4.00, High School, 4.09/4.00 at North Forsyth High School
Github Skills (8)
rails10
wcag10
back-end-development10
ruby-on-rails10
database9
databases9
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
thewca/worldcubeassociation.org
Feb 2019 - Jun 2022
All of the code that runs on worldcubeassociation.org
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:57 reviews, 24 commits, 53 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to the back-end of the worldcubeassociation.org project, making changes to the Ruby on Rails application. Their commits focused on improving data validation, specifically addressing missing results and errors in the competition results. They also implemented features, such as adding a link to the gear order form in the delegate panel and the ability to reassign a WCA ID. They also worked on a new anonymization process and refactoring code.
worldcubeassociationrunscubingspeedcubingwca
Jambrose777/worldcubeassociation.org
Feb 2019 - Jun 2022
All of the code that runs on worldcubeassociation.org
Contributions:3 PRs, 162 pushes, 44 branches in 3 years 5 months
worldcubeassociationinspectionruns
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