Jacob Champion
Principal Software Engineer at EDB
Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area United States
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RockstarJacob Champion is a Principal Software Engineer based in Portland with 11+ years building and securing web-based distributed systems, particularly in embedded and resource-constrained environments. He combines hands-on engineering—upgrading legacy stacks, cleaning up production cruft, and shipping features—with system architecture work that minimizes security risk and eases operability. Jacob has led teams and acted as ScrumMaster while contributing to major open-source projects, including polyfills, web-platform-tests, and adaptations for serverless DNS deployments across Cloudflare, Fastly, Deno, and more. His background spans database and Postgres-focused work at VMware/Pivotal and operationalizing edge deployments, giving him a rare blend of internals expertise and practical deployment/DevOps skills. Notably, he has implemented WASM-related fixes in gecko-dev and authored interoperability test cases that improve web spec conformance, showing attention to correctness as well as scalability.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (36)
compatible10
javascript10
c-language10
back-end-development10
es6-promise10
testing10
browser-support10
polyfills10
web-standards10
fetch10
serverless10
blazor-webassembly10
nodejs10
webassembly10
cprogramming-language10
Programming languages (33)
Github contributions (5)
JakeChampion/fetch
May 2020 - Feb 2021
A window.fetch JavaScript polyfill.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:28 releases, 16 reviews, 48 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to the `fetch` JavaScript polyfill, fixing bugs, and improving functionality. They addressed issues related to the `DOMException`, cache behavior, and arrayBuffer handling. They also made changes to the build configuration and incorporated code improvements for better browser compatibility and performance.
javascriptpolyfillfetch
web-platform-tests/wpt
May 2022 - Jun 2022
Test suites for Web platform specs — including WHATWG, W3C, and others
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 5 commits, 6 PRs in 16 days
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to the project by adding test cases and ensuring the correct behavior of various Web API constructors. Their work focused on verifying that constructors like `Request`, `Event`, `SubmitEvent`, `PromiseRejectionEvent`, `MessageEvent`, `PopStateEvent`, `FormDataEvent`, `BroadcastChannel`, `OffscreenCanvas`, `ImageData`, `StorageEvent`, and `EventSource` throw `TypeError` when called without the `new` keyword. The user's commits involved modifying test files and adding assertions to validate these error conditions, ensuring the project's conformance to web standards. They also added tests related to SharedWorker constructor errors.
w3ctestingtest-automationbrowserwhatwg
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