Jacob Doiron
Senior Software Engineer at TechnologyAdvice
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Doiron is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient web platforms and user-facing systems, currently driving product features at TechnologyAdvice after its acquisition of DZone. He specializes in backend Java/Spring/Hibernate development and has a track record of improving content delivery and engagement—designing content taxonomies, implementing bounty systems to incentivize authors, and adding middleware to pre-rank content to prevent outages. Past roles span full-stack work for the Carolina Hurricanes, geospatial automation at Syngenta, and practical problem-solving that ranges from auctions and order systems to data aggregation pipelines. Based in Durham, NC, he pairs a pragmatic engineering approach with a curiosity that began in gameplay automation for an MMORPG, and outside work he’s an avid cyclist and dog owner. Colleagues would describe him as reliable, product-focused, and unafraid to tackle both architecture and hands-on coding to make features land.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science at St. Mary's College of MarylandGeneral Studies High school diploma, General Studies High school diploma at Floyd E. Kellam High SchoolHigh School Diploma General Studies, High School Diploma General Studies at Leonardtown High School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (5)
dedicated-server7
dotnet5
game-development4
server-mod3
game-engine3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jdoiron94/jdoiron-me
Dec 2018 - Jan 2026
New website using ReactJS, hosted at https://jdoiron.me.
Contributions:34 PRs, 93 pushes, 34 branches in 7 years 2 months
reactjsreacthosted
jdoiron94/questly
May 2019 - Aug 2025
Questly is a way of tracking completed quests and quests that can be completed with your skill levels and quest history.
Contributions:13 PRs, 43 pushes, 11 branches in 6 years 4 months
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