Jacob Cable
Staff Software Engineer at Invertase
South Hams, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Cable is a Staff Software Engineer with six years of industry experience and a rare academic background—a PhD in pure mathematics from Manchester and a master's from Oxford—applied to practical engineering at Invertase. He has progressed from frontend and full‑stack roles into backend- and infra-focused engineering, contributing to high-profile open-source work such as the official Firebase extensions repository. His contributions include user data deletion workflows across Firestore and Realtime Database, BigQuery export improvements, and adding AVIF support to image-resize tooling, showing attention to privacy, data pipelines, and media processing. Comfortable across React, Node/Express, serverless patterns and testing automation, he brings both product-minded delivery (built audit and performance tooling at Wakelet) and deep analytical rigor. Colleagues benefit from his blend of research-grade problem solving and pragmatic, production-ready solutions. Based in the South Hams, he combines distributed-team experience with a focus on reliable, auditable backend systems.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Mathematics, Master's degree Mathematics at University of OxfordDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mathematics at The University of Manchester
Github Skills (9)
bigquery10
firebase-cloud-functions10
firestore10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
nodejs9
realtime-database8
image-processing8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
firebase/extensions
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Source code for official Firebase extensions
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:250 reviews, 84 commits, 497 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to the `firebase/extensions` repository by developing and modifying backend functions. Their work includes implementing user data deletion functionalities, specifically involving Firestore and Realtime Database interactions. They also added support for the AVIF codec in the storage-resize-images extension, reflecting involvement in image processing and related configurations. Additionally, the user addressed issues and improved the BigQuery export extension.
firebaseextensionsfirebase-extensionsfirestore
cabljac/test
Dec 2021 - Mar 2023
Contributions:30 PRs, 177 pushes, 33 branches in 1 year 3 months
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