Jacob Duval
Founder at Rough.app
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
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Top SchoolJacob Duval is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with 12 years of experience building product-focused teams and scalable web platforms from Christchurch, New Zealand. He cofounded Mish Guru and led its full-stack Node.js/React/GraphQL stack, then scaled engineering as VP at Runn before launching Rough.app to help teams adopt Shape Up and align on priorities. Jacob blends hands-on development, product thinking, and startup grit—having shipped bespoke enterprise solutions, mass-casualty hospital tools, and social-media marketing platforms. He’s comfortable turning ambiguous problems into pragmatic tooling and is known for recruiting and shaping remote engineering teams to deliver on tight product roadmaps.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Of Science Computer Science, Bachelor Of Science Computer Science at University of CanterburyChrist's College
English
Stackoverflow
539reputation
12kreached
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Github Skills (98)
instagram10
backend10
instagram-api10
javascript9
mongoose9
database9
server-side9
authentication9
styled-components9
firebase9
css9
module-loader9
react9
serverless-functions9
typescript9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mishguruorg/restler
Jun 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 years
apiclient-librarynode-jsrest-clientnodejs
mishguruorg/aws-fanout
Sep 2015 - Aug 2018
A library to work with topics and queues on AWS SQS & SNS.
Contributions:62 commits, 2 PRs, 25 pushes in 2 years 11 months
aws
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