Jacob Calkins
Software Engineer at Financial Recovery Technologies
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Calkins is a Full Stack Software Engineer with nine years of experience building cloud-native services and modernizing legacy systems, currently engineering at Financial Recovery Technologies in Boston. He combines a UX-first mindset with scalable, testable backend architectures, shipping polished Vue/React front ends used by thousands in a high-performance claims environment. At Liberty Mutual he led cross-functional teams to migrate a 40-year-old monolith to serverless, rebuilt critical TypeScript integrations into a single repo with a modern GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline, and drove measurable improvements like a 17% reduction in crashes and a 75% drop in document errors. He champions developer productivity and quality—migrating pipelines, enforcing >80% coverage gates, and leveraging Copilot and OpenRewrite to accelerate refactoring while keeping security and compliance front of mind. Comfortable across AWS serverless (Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB) and containerized services, he also builds Python tooling for realistic performance and integration testing. Practical, detail-oriented, and data-driven, he excels at turning thorny legacy problems into reliable, observable systems that improve both UX and operational uptime.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Github Skills (8)
nodejs8
nextjs7
java6
raycast4
react3
full-stack3
elevation3
javascript1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Rob-Kilgore/Far-Trek
Oct 2019 - Nov 2025
Elevation Based Navigation
Contributions:16 pushes, 2 branches, 13 issues in 6 years 1 month
elevationnavigation
mjd4686/WiFi-Router-Hyper-Simulator-X3000
May 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:58 pushes, 13 comments, 58 issues in 8 days
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