Jacob Clarke is a full-stack developer based in Greater Brisbane with 11 years of experience building responsive, production web solutions alongside creative teams at Bigfish.tv. He spans the full lifecycle from design schematics and front-end responsive styling to back-end configuration, testing, and hosting, often translating creative briefs into technically robust digital experiences. A practiced collaborator, he pairs development with interaction design sensibilities from freelance work and a background in sound and interactive visual design. Jacob contributes to notable open-source audio tooling—adding TypeScript conversions, refactors and tests to Tone.js instruments like MetalSynth and FMSynth—reflecting a rare blend of web engineering and music-tech expertise. He also holds advanced study in music industry professions and brings practical experience as a sound designer and performing musician, which informs his user-centric approach to interactive audio and media projects. Colleagues describe him as a developer who thinks like a designer and an artist who ships reliable code.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Music Industry Professions, Master's Degree, Music Industry Professions at Queensland University of Technology
International Baccalaureate Certificate, Film HL, Art HL, International Baccalaureate Certificate, Film HL, Art HL at Queensland Academy for Creative Industries
A Web Audio framework for making interactive music in the browser.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 5 comments in 26 days
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to the development of the `MetalSynth`, `NoiseSynth`, and `FMSynth` instruments within the Tone.js framework. Their work involved converting code to TypeScript, refactoring existing code, and adding new features. They also focused on implementing tests for these instruments, demonstrating a commitment to code quality.
Contributions:5 releases, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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