Jacob Fugal
Sr. Software Engineer at Instructure, Inc.
Utah, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Fugal is a senior software engineer with 18 years of experience, currently building backend systems at Instructure where he has worked since 2011. He specializes in robust server-side development for large-scale educational software, contributing to the popular open-source Canvas LMS—particularly around authentication, user masquerading, and direct file upload handling. Jacob combines deep practical knowledge from a long tenure with advanced study at Georgia Tech, bringing both stability and continuous learning to complex production systems. Based in Utah, he favors pragmatic, security-conscious solutions that keep integrations reliable at scale.
18 years of coding experience
Master’s Degree, Master’s Degree at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBS, BS at Brigham Young University
Spanish
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Github Skills (14)
back-end-development10
oauth10
jwt10
apidoc9
file-management9
api9
angularjs6
asp-net6
active-directory6
nodejs6
azure6
javascript6
microsoft-graph-api6
office3656
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
instructure/canvas-lms
Jun 2011 - Jul 2020
The open LMS by Instructure, Inc.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:837 commits, 20 pushes, 10 tags in 9 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jacob focused on back-end development, making changes to the InstFS component related to authentication and file access. They implemented features to handle user masquerading, ensuring the correct user identity is reported in OAuth responses. They also worked on setting up and managing the direct file upload functionality, and made changes to how attachment URLs are constructed.
lmsinstructurecanvas-lmsgerrit-mirror
lukfugl/alhambra
Mar 2008 - Feb 2009
Contributions:106 commits in 11 months
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