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 (99)
trading10
emoji10
npm-package10
websocket10
abstraction10
cheerio10
steam10
anonymous10
tradingview10
alerts10
vscode10
bot-framework10
wrapper10
bybit10
discord10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tacyarg/cryptapi-service
Dec 2019 - Sep 2022
A simple service to handle processing of crypto payments.
Contributions:1 release, 56 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 10 months
cryptoanonymityanonymousbitcoinbitcoin-cash
fundingrate/tradingview-webhooks
Sep 2019 - Mar 2020
Backend service converting tradingview alerts into action.
Contributions:88 commits, 2 PRs, 66 pushes in 6 months
backendtradingviewwebhooksbotbot-framework
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