Jacob Burton
Staff Software Engineer at Expedition Software
Alaska, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Burton is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building full-stack systems, currently splitting his time between leading engineering at Expedition Software and co-founding a fintech startup, Medio Fi. Based in Alaska, he brings a pragmatic, community-minded approach—rooted in family life on an agrarian homestead—to designing tools that have real-world impact for users. His background spans enterprise integrations at Broadcom/Rally to startup architecture at Waffle.io, and he contributes to notable open-source projects like Automattic’s Mongoose with backend fixes that improve sub-document hook behavior and MongoDB connection options. Comfortable from dev-ops to frontend, Jacob is particularly strong at bridging integration strategy and hands-on implementation to ship reliable systems. He pairs technical depth with product intuition and a talent for turning messy cross-team requirements into maintainable, user-focused software.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science International Affairs, BA Computer Science International Affairs at University of Colorado Boulder
Arabic
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Github Skills (23)
asynchronous10
mongoose10
debug10
javascript10
async10
schema-design10
mongodb-database10
nodejs10
mongodb10
testing9
databases9
database9
apidoc8
api8
angular6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/mongoose
Jul 2015 - Apr 2016
MongoDB object modeling designed to work in an asynchronous environment.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 12 PRs, 13 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the Mongoose framework. Their work involved addressing issues related to document saving, including the handling of affected documents and default field behaviors. They also implemented improvements to pre-init hooks on sub-documents and ensured proper pre-save hook firing on sub-documents before their parent. Additionally, the user added support for connecting to MongoDB with the `mongos: true` option and through a connection string query parameter.
pythonasynchronousmongoodmmodeling
burtonjc/b
Mar 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 3 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 2 months
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