Jacob Dent
Full Stack Engineer at Chips.gg
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Dent is a Full Stack Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building scalable, realtime web platforms and APIs from the Greater Chicago Area. He builds developer-first SaaS tooling—currently at Chips.gg—focused on reliable virtual asset management and high-demand realtime systems, and also runs Fundingrate.io to streamline TradingView webhook-driven trading strategies. As founder of REDPKT and author of projects like Vunbox (processing 7.5M+ events), he combines backend Node.js expertise with React/Vue frontends to ship auditable, production-grade features. His work emphasizes stability, auditability, and developer ergonomics—creating well-documented APIs and provable systems such as fair hash chains. Comfortable leading small teams and mentoring, he has a track record of improving operational quality, tooling, and deployment practices across gaming and e-commerce platforms. Self-educated in software and shaped by a practical interest in stoic philosophy, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a focus on measurable outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
stoic philosophy, experience, stoic philosophy, experience at self educated
English, javascript
Github Skills (142)
apikey10
npm-package10
nosql-database10
faunadb10
client-library10
filemaker10
anonymous10
development-environment10
wrapper10
bybit10
ide10
vgo10
discord-bot10
addon10
cheerio9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
chipsgg/chips-admin
Apr 2019 - Apr 2022
A dynamically populated, page focused, admin control panel.
Contributions:8 PRs, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
chipsggreactadminadministrationfocused
tacyarg/litecoin-core
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Simple RPC client for the Litecoin core node
Contributions:5 releases, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 1 month
rpcnode-corerpc-clientcryptocurrencybitcoin
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