Jacob Bloom
Full-Stack Software Developer at Cleerly
Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Bloom is a full-stack software developer with 11 years of experience, currently building cloud products at Cleerly and formerly leading front-end efforts at Anark Corporation. He specializes in TypeScript and React, having architected a low-code TemplateAPI, a pixel-perfect component library, and a browser-based file sharing UI that enabled a strategic SaaS pivot. Jacob contributes to notable open-source front-end work such as Scratch Blocks, where he improved block categorization, rendering, and UX details like dropdown styling. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs practical Node/Express backend work and test-driven practices with a designer’s eye from a product design certificate. A Colorado-based developer with a lifelong passion for JavaScript, he spends spare time exploring esoteric TypeScript experiments that often inform pragmatic engineering choices.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
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Github Skills (14)
css10
blockly10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design9
audio6
svg6
twitter-bootstrap6
web-audio-api6
offset6
playback6
anchor6
typography6
html5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
scratchfoundation/scratch-blocks
Jul 2016 - Dec 2017
Scratch Blocks is a library for building creative computing interfaces.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 12 PRs, 100 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the Scratch Blocks library. They implemented features to classify blocks by shape and category, adding attributes for styling and improved organization. Key contributions included modifications to the rendering of blocks, incorporating new classes for insertion markers and replacement rings, and updating various blocks' properties to align with the new categorization scheme, all related to the core functionality of Scratch Blocks. The user also refined the styling of dropdown menus to improve user experience.
interfacesscratchscratch-blockscomputing
notochord/notochord.github.io
Feb 2019 - Apr 2024
Contributions:16 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 3 months
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