Jacob Cattrall
Engineering Manager at Twitch
Plymouth, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJacob Cattrall is an engineering manager with 14 years of hands-on experience building and leading teams that create products for passionate communities, notably co-founding IGDB.com which is now part of Twitch. Based in Plymouth, he leads the IGDB engineering team at Twitch, blending product-minded leadership with deep front-end and full-stack development skills. His background includes leading frontend at IGDB, contributing to popular open-source tooling like the bee-queue/arena dashboard, and practical experience shipping web apps and dashboards. Known for bridging technical delivery and user-focused design, he brings entrepreneurial instincts from founding a startup to scaling systems inside a major platform.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
GNVQ, ICT, GNVQ, ICT at okehamptonOkehampton College
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
dashboard10
nodejs10
job-queue10
expressjs9
handlebars9
json9
backend8
bull8
back-end-development8
redis7
ui-design7
front-end-development7
uid7
api6
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
bee-queue/arena
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
An interactive UI dashboard for Bee, Bull and BullMQ packages
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 29 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Jacob contributed to the development of the interactive UI dashboard for the `bee-queue/arena` repository. They implemented features related to adding jobs, displaying queue details, and integrating with the JSON editor for job data. The user also addressed code consistency concerns, replaced a dependency, and made improvements to the UI and data handling within the application. Their work involved modifying both frontend (Handlebars templates, CSS, and JavaScript) and backend (API routes and queue management) components.
ui-dashboardbeebullmqjob-queuebee-queue
Keyframes/Keyframes.Pathfinder
Mar 2014 - Mar 2020
A plugin for Keyframes that generates complex movement paths
Contributions:33 commits, 3 PRs, 16 pushes in 6 years 1 month
pathspluginkeyframes
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