Jacob Haines
Senior Productivity Engineer at Torc Robotics
Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Haines is a Senior Productivity Engineer with 11 years of experience building developer-facing platforms and full-stack web applications, currently enabling engineering velocity at Torc Robotics. He has a track record of improving developer tooling, CI/CD, local dev environments, and build systems, including authoring an internal CLI to simplify onboarding across complex stacks. Previously he led productivity and quality initiatives at FullStory and architected customer-facing products, dashboards, and testing automation at Pantheon using Go, PHP, React, GraphQL, and cloud-native tooling. Comfortable across backend and frontend domains, he emphasizes well-designed APIs, testability, and operational readiness—often introducing standards like i18n, error monitoring, and flaky-test quarantines. Based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Jacob combines pragmatic engineering with a penchant for turning messy legacy code into maintainable, asynchronous systems and enjoys solving the developer-experience problems teams often overlook.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.5407, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.5407 at Hampden-Sydney College
German
Github Skills (15)
pixabay10
api6
javascript-client5
nodejs5
javascript4
rest-framework1
mdns1
django1
django-rest1
fluture1
rest1
functional-programming1
django-rest-framework1
axios1
endpoints1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
yola/pixabayjs
May 2015 - Mar 2017
A Javascript Client for the Pixabay API
Contributions:38 commits in 1 year 11 months
apijavascript-clientjavascriptpixabay-apinodejs
yola/classlist-polyfill-old
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:3 commits in 19 days
mdnsjavascriptclasslistpolyfill
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