Jacob Bennett
Director Of Technology And Innovation
Normal, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Bennett is a Director of Technology and Innovation with 13 years of experience building and leading cross-functional engineering, IT, and creative teams from Normal, Illinois. He blends hands-on backend expertise in PHP/Laravel and MySQL with product-focused automation that has repeatedly reduced manual labor and increased company throughput. At Wilber Group he progressed from systems analyst and lead developer to directing technology strategy and team vision while maintaining a practitioner’s touch. An active contributor to the Laravel framework, he’s shipped queue and failed-job tooling improvements that reflect deep familiarity with framework internals. Trained as a math educator, he brings a methodical, user-centered approach to designing minimalist, high-utility web applications and developer workflows. Outside of work he’s driven by a perfectionist streak turned into pragmatic process improvements that scale.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc, Secondary Mathematics Education, B.Sc, Secondary Mathematics Education at Maranatha Baptist University
Github Skills (11)
php10
laravel10
queuing10
console10
queue10
laravel-mix10
command-line9
web-framework9
command-line-interface8
cli8
testing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/framework
Aug 2015 - Apr 2021
The Laravel Framework.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 11 PRs, 29 comments in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to the Laravel framework's queue functionality, including fixing bugs related to migrations after queue commands. They added new console commands for managing failed jobs, such as the ability to retry multiple failed jobs at once and retry all failed jobs. They also refactored existing methods and made changes to the scheduler. The user demonstrated familiarity with PHP and the Laravel framework's internal workings.
laravel-frameworklaravelphpframework
WilberGroup/laracsv
Aug 2019 - Dec 2023
Contributions:1 release, 1 push, 1 tag in 4 years 4 months
csvphpcsv-fileslaravel-packagelaravel
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