Summary
Jacob Fordyce is a pragmatic software engineer with eight years of professional experience building and supporting desktop and back-end systems, currently focused at Kin Insurance. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Java, C#, Visual Basic, and SQL Server, complemented by web front-end skills in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and ASP.NET. Jacob has a strong track record in production support and manual testing for high-impact financial and insurance systems, pairing feature development with incident triage. Comfortable across the stack, he has delivered solutions using MVVM, Dapper/Entity Framework, and legacy modernization efforts, and thrives in Agile/Scrum teams. Notably, he combines automation and tooling experience from early roles (Java and Perl-based internal tools) with ongoing application development, making him effective at both shipping new features and keeping critical systems reliable.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Applied Science, Software Application Programming, Associate of Applied Science, Software Application Programming at ITT Technical Institute