Jacob Bolda
Senior Software Engineer at Frontside Software
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Bolda is a Senior Software Engineer based in Milwaukee with 11 years of experience who transitioned from a career in structural engineering into full‑stack software development. At Frontside he builds reliable developer tooling and contributes to notable open-source projects like Gatsby and Tauri—improving build systems, TypeScript migrations, and CI workflows. His background in structural engineering and product development gives him a practiced eye for rigorous testing, reproducible builds, and practical automation. He founded the AEC Collective to bridge architecture/engineering/construction communities with tech, and he maintains a personal site showcasing his interdisciplinary projects. Colleagues know him for translating complex, domain-specific requirements into maintainable code and for reducing fragility and build times in the projects he touches.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Architectural Engineering, B.S., Architectural Engineering at Milwaukee School of Engineering
German
Github Skills (43)
github-ci10
javascript10
webview10
css10
typescript10
tauri10
desktop-application10
jestjs10
build-automation10
typescript-types10
android-webview10
nodejs10
rust10
typescripts10
githubaction-workflow10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
tauri-apps/tauri
Nov 2019 - Feb 2022
Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop and mobile applications with a web frontend.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 41 reviews, 124 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to the development of a themed Gatsby site example within the Tauri framework. Their work involved setting up the example, integrating Tauri resources, and making it functional. Additionally, they streamlined the example configuration and dependencies, removing components to improve build speed and reduce fragility. They made code adjustments in configuration and source files to incorporate the Gatsby example and address breaking changes.
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actions/create-release
Feb 2020 - May 2020
An Action to create releases via the GitHub Release API
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 9 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to the "create-release" GitHub Action, enhancing its functionality. They refactored the code to handle release body content from a file, offering greater flexibility in release creation. The user added an option to specify a file path (`body_path`) for the release body, including error handling if the file is not found. Additionally, they fixed encoding issues to ensure the correct processing of the release body content.
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