Jacob Beard
Vice President at Morgan Stanley
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Beard is a seasoned technology consultant and founder with 15 years of experience building full-stack web and mobile applications, now serving as Vice President at Morgan Stanley while leading Minnow Software. He combines solutions architecture, software engineering, data science, and project management to take projects from prototype to production across industries including healthcare, finance, and entertainment. Technically fluent in TypeScript/React/GraphQL, Node.js/Java/AWS, Python for data work, and a variety of relational and JSON databases, he also brings deep expertise in state machines (XState, SCION, SCXML) that informs robust UI and embedded systems design. A McGill-trained engineer, Jacob has a background of early open-source statechart work and long-standing client-facing and team leadership skills that help translate complex requirements into maintainable systems. Notably, he has sustained both consultancy and enterprise roles simultaneously, demonstrating an ability to scale practices from startups to Fortune 100 clients.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Blockchain Development Fellowship, Computer Software Engineering, Blockchain Development Fellowship, Computer Software Engineering at Bridge AcademyMaster of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at McGill University
German, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
svg10
chartjs-plugin10
cpp10
correspondence10
single-file10
api10
github-api10
obj10
wavefront10
nodejs10
css10
reloading10
python10
couchapp10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
jbeard4/scxml-test-framework
Jun 2011 - Sep 2018
A set of SCXML tests, and an HTTP client test runner for testing against SCXML HTTP test servers. Development moved to gitlab: https://gitlab.com/scion-scxml/test-framework
Contributions:2 releases, 176 commits, 14 PRs in 7 years 4 months
scxmltestinghttp-clienttest-runnerrunner
jbeard4/SCION
May 2011 - Jul 2018
Contributions:8 releases, 1087 commits, 27 PRs in 7 years 2 months
optimizationinterpretationscxml
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