Jacob Duba
Software Engineer at Chicago Gaming Company
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Duba is a software engineer with 11 years of practical experience, currently based in the Greater Chicago Area and building products at Chicago Gaming Company. A Computer Science student at Iowa State University, he combines hands-on cloud and front-end work—optimizing AWS Lambda performance, cutting infrastructure costs, and enabling server-side rendering with Next.js—to deliver measurable improvements in latency and cost. He has startup founder experience through VIPReply and a track record of shipping production features and CI/CD improvements during internships at Principal Financial Group and Source Allies. Comfortable across the full stack, Jacob brings an engineer’s attention to performance and reliability while translating business needs into pragmatic software solutions. An underrated strength is his pattern of turning operational pain points (deployments, cost, and third-party API reliability) into durable engineering fixes.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science, Computer Science, Computer Science at Iowa State University
Github Skills (81)
minifier10
elementaryos10
javascript9
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code-editor9
appstream9
vala9
bundler9
gtk9
jsx9
multiplayer9
stripe9
css9
react9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jacobduba/jacobduba.github.io
Jun 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:14 commits, 6 PRs, 97 pushes in 2 years 4 months
jacobduba/dotfiles
Dec 2020 - Nov 2024
Contributions:54 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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