Jacob Brogan
Owner at Dolphinspired Studio LLC
Richmond, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Brogan is an experienced application developer and cloud-ops engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building resilient, scalable cloud applications and developer workflows. He has driven production systems at enterprises like Capital One and CarMax, modernizing CI/CD, migrating services to TypeScript/Node.js, and authoring multi-tenant AWS Lambda and Azure-backed microservices. Jacob excels at eliminating day-to-day pain in complex systems—improving release velocity, reducing support churn, and increasing developer engagement through pragmatic automation, testing, and clear documentation. He pairs backend and cloud expertise with product-minded design, focusing on software people want to use rather than tolerate. Beyond corporate roles he runs small ventures—game software publishing and a studio for custom plush/prop work—bringing an entrepreneurial, user-centered perspective to engineering problems. Based in Richmond, VA, he blends environmental science training with technical craft, giving him an uncommon systems-thinking lens on engineering and product decisions.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Environmental Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Environmental Science at Christopher Newport UniversityAssociate of Science (A.S.) General Studies, Associate of Science (A.S.) General Studies at Virginia Western Community College
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Github Skills (28)
dedicated-server10
quest9
world-of-warcraft9
windows9
pocketmine8
addon8
pathofexile7
entities7
out-of-process7
plugin7
viewer7
nodejs6
unit-testing6
javascript6
sinon6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dolphinspired/Wox.Plugin.RuneScapeWiki
Nov 2016 - Oct 2018
Contributions:1 release, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
dolphinspired/CHIPS
Dec 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:43 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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