Jacob Burkhart
Staff Software Engineer at HOVER Inc.
Pacifica, California, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Burkhart is a seasoned Staff Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building and operating Ruby-centric web platforms and services. Based in Pacifica, CA, he has deep expertise in Ruby/Rails across startups and cloud platforms, from early-career systems work at EMC and Apple to long tenures at Engine Yard and HOVER where he now blends Ruby with 3D graphics and transformation math. He prioritizes product-market fit—“building the right thing over building it the right way”—while still delivering robust, test-driven systems and APIs for large fleets of applications. Jacob’s background includes low-level C work on storage tools and multi-language consulting, giving him uncommon breadth across stack layers and platforms. Pragmatic and curious, he brings both hands-on coding and systems-level thinking to solve engineering problems that bridge web services and 3D domain specifics.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Northeastern University
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Github Skills (83)
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google-cloud-platform7
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jacobo/enki
Jan 2009 - May 2021
Contributions:25 commits, 3 pushes in 12 years 5 months
jacobo/birdswell
Jan 2017 - Nov 2022
Contributions:67 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
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