Jacob Barber
Senior Software Engineer at Disney Streaming
Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Barber is a Senior Software Engineer based in Texas with 12 years of experience building robust back-end systems and streaming data solutions. He’s been driving reliable, production-grade services at Disney Streaming since 2018 and previously delivered API and VoIP infrastructure work at Cytracom and high-throughput platform features at StackPath. A pragmatic functional programmer, he contributes to notable open-source Scala tooling like scalafix—adding regex-driven DisableSyntax rules, tests, docs, and universal inequality support to make code safer and easier to maintain. Jacob’s background spans low-level physics simulations and game-engine engineering to mission-critical REST APIs, showing a blend of algorithmic creativity and systems rigor. He focuses on defendable, well-tested implementations and enjoys refining developer ergonomics in large codebases. Colleagues would call him curious and quietly obsessive about making complex systems simpler and less error-prone.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Plano East Senior High
English
Github Skills (9)
scala10
metaprogramming10
regex10
testing10
rewrite9
linter9
refactoring9
sbt8
dotty7
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
scalacenter/scalafix
Nov 2018 - Jan 2019
Refactoring and linting tool for Scala
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily focused on implementing and refining features related to the `DisableSyntax` rule within the scalafix project. They added functionality for regular expression matching and related configuration options, along with corresponding tests. The user addressed reported issues and improved the documentation, making code safer and more robust. They also added support for universal inequality cases.
linterlintingmetaprogrammingrefactoringscala
Jacoby6000/sqlz
Feb 2016 - Oct 2018
Contributions:400 commits, 32 PRs, 388 pushes in 2 years 8 months
sql-generationsqlfunctional-programmingpure-functional
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