Jacob Durham
Principal Software Engineer at IONNA
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Durham is a Full Stack Software Engineer with a decade of experience building web platforms from Ember/Rails startups to large-scale systems at LinkedIn, where he migrated ad creation workflows to protobuf/gRPC-backed multi-platform renderers. He combines systems-level rigor with a pragmatic front-end sensibility, shipping readable, maintainable code and contributing to open-source tooling such as ember-metrics refactors. Passionate about LLM-backed developer tooling, he experiments with agentic workflows that connect data to autonomous systems while arguing for human-centered creative control. Based in Durham, NC, Jacob draws on a background in instrument electronics and luthiery, bringing hands-on craftsmanship and attention to detail to both code and product.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science Major, Mathematics Minor, B.S. Computer Science Major, Mathematics Minor at University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Github Skills (8)
javascript10
ember10
ember-addon10
analytics9
refactoring9
typescript-types7
typescript7
typescripts7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
adopted-ember-addons/ember-metrics
Oct 2021 - Nov 2021
Send data to multiple analytics integrations without re-implementing new API
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 7 commits, 5 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily focused on refactoring and improving the `ember-metrics` service. Their contributions included cleaning up the service code, improving readability, and optimizing adapter instantiation and caching. They also worked on standardizing and refactoring utilities, including object transformations, and removing exposure of private utils. These changes involved code modifications across multiple files, including service and adapter implementations.
ember-addonanalyticsapiemberintegrations
jfdnc/ember.js
Jan 2018 - Dec 2021
Ember.js - A JavaScript framework for creating ambitious web applications
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 11 months
web-applicationsjavascript-frameworkjavascriptemberjsember
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