Jacob Bridges
Full Stack Engineer at Zapier
Alabama, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Bridges is a Full Stack Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable web and data systems across startups and enterprise teams. He has led engineering efforts at companies like American Family Insurance and Nerdery, and now contributes to Zapier, bringing deep hands-on expertise in Python/Django, React, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), and Terraform. Jacob has a strong track record of operationalizing data pipelines and CI/CD, creating modular platforms that empower data scientists and reduce engineering friction. He’s comfortable moving legacy systems to containerized, infrastructure-as-code environments and has repeatedly driven containerization and automation initiatives. Based in Alabama, he combines pragmatic engineering leadership with a builder’s mindset — “live in the future and build what’s missing” — often surfacing practical tooling improvements that accelerate teams beyond feature work.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Pensacola Christian College
Stackoverflow
725reputation
82kreached
14answers
13questions
Github Skills (129)
python10
chatgpt10
generative-ai10
ai10
gemini10
typescript10
forum10
zapier10
langchain10
open-source10
llm10
openai10
anthropic10
javascript9
nodebb9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jacobbridges/poetry-collection-api
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:9 commits, 11 pushes, 4 branches in 5 days
jacobbridges/scribbli-mvp
Nov 2018 - Jun 2021
Contributions:5 PRs, 18 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 7 months
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