Jacob Buys
Operations Manager
Ankeny, Iowa, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Buys is an operations leader and technologist with 15 years of frontline customer service and management experience, currently serving as Operations Manager in Ankeny, Iowa. He pairs hands-on restaurant and team leadership with a background in Management Information Systems from Iowa State University, translating operational needs into pragmatic tech solutions. An active developer on GitHub (self-styled "Chief Nerd"), Jacob has contributed full-stack and backend improvements to notable open-source projects like homesick and blox—work that ranges from refactoring schedulers and JSON-RPC integrations to enhancing dotfiles tooling and test suites. His blend of people-first management and code-level problem solving means he can both optimize workflows and implement reliable technical fixes. Comfortable leading teams, running events, and shipping tested software, he brings a practical, multidisciplinary approach that surfaces in improved processes and maintainable systems. A less obvious strength is his knack for bridging operational pain points with concrete engineering changes, turning day-to-day friction into repeatable, documented improvements.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Management Information Systems General, Bachelor's degree Management Information Systems General at Iowa State University - Ivy College of Business
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (31)
json-rpc10
filesystem10
jquery10
amazon-ecs10
testing10
rspec10
loops10
file-operations10
java10
ruby10
javas10
dictionary10
fileio10
spring-boot10
scripting9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
blox/blox
Aug 2017 - Feb 2018
Open source tools for building custom schedulers on Amazon ECS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 commits, 102 PRs, 57 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily focused on improving the scheduling manager within the project, specifically by refactoring the code to work with a new DataService interface. This involved updating dependencies, modifying code to integrate with a JSON-RPC data service, and implementing efficient cluster state snapshots within the ECSStateClient. The contributions also included adding an end-to-end test for a SingleTask Environment, indicating a focus on testing and verifying the scheduler's functionality. The user also made changes to the frontend models to match the DataService, and implemented a first-pass Daemon scheduler.
amazon-ecsawscontainer-managementblox
technicalpickles/homesick
Aug 2011 - Mar 2013
Your home directory is your castle. Don't leave your dotfiles behind.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily worked on the `homesick` repository, which manages dotfiles. Their contributions centered around improving the testing infrastructure, adding features, and refactoring the codebase. Specifically, they added support for linking non-dotfiles, corrected issues in symlinking behavior, and improved tests. They also refactored tests and implemented the `track` and `list` functionality.
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