Jacob Bearce
Web Developer at Weblinx, Inc.
Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Bearce is a seasoned web developer based in Illinois with 11 years of hands-on experience building hundreds of websites using HTML5, SCSS, JavaScript, and PHP. He combines front-end craftsmanship with back-end and DevOps skills, contributing to automation tools such as a PHP webhook-based auto-deploy script and improving cross-platform server tooling for Apache virtual hosts and WSL. At Weblinx he’s delivered polished, production-ready sites while also addressing operational reliability through deployment hooks, secret handling, and improved logging. Comfortable navigating both design-minded tasks and low-level scripting, he brings a pragmatic focus on maintainability and developer experience to every project.
11 years of coding experience
Transfer, Graphic Design, Transfer, Graphic Design at Waubonsee Community College
English, German
Stackoverflow
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57answers
244questions
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Github Skills (31)
git10
deploying10
github10
scripting10
webhooks10
bash10
ubuntu10
gitlab10
automation10
php10
script10
wsl210
sh10
automations10
shell10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
vicenteguerra/git-deploy
Apr 2017 - May 2019
Php Script for Auto-Pull in server (Using WebHook from GitLab, GitHub and Bitbucket)
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:37 commits, 3 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily focused on the deployment and automation aspects of the PHP script. They implemented features for automatic code pulling from Git repositories using webhooks from various providers like GitLab and GitHub. The user added functionality to handle secret tokens, improved logging, and added features such as `BEFORE_PULL` and `AFTER_PULL` execution hooks. They also made significant changes to improve code formatting and reliability by incorporating HTTP response codes.
deploymenttriggerdeployphpbitbucket
RoverWire/virtualhost
Jun 2017 - Feb 2018
Bash Script to easy create or delete apache virtual hosts on ubuntu
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to enhancing the functionality of a bash script designed to manage Apache virtual hosts on Ubuntu. Their work focused on extending the script to support the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), specifically modifying the script to correctly add and remove domain entries from the Windows hosts file within the WSL environment. Additional commits addressed code style inconsistencies, added helpful error messages, and fixed Windows-specific line break issues to improve the script's usability.
nginxhostsapachebashapache2
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