Jacob Herper
Lead Software Engineer at Holland & Barrett
Coventry, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJacob Herper is a Lead Software Engineer with 10 years of experience specialising in front-end development using React and TypeScript, currently driving product and engineering outcomes at Holland & Barrett. He has a strong track record building customer-facing platforms—leading the development of a multi-tenant booking and video meeting system that replaced a third-party provider and saved ~£500k annually—and delivering GenAI features that cut contact-centre AHT by 20%. Equally comfortable as a founder and a tech lead, he built a SaaS-style real-estate product from the ground up and has repeatedly led hiring and squad formation to scale engineering teams. An advocate for web performance, accessibility and the Jamstack, Jacob blends pragmatic engineering with design-minded UX sensibility and a penchant for solving everyday problems through code. Based in Coventry, he pairs hands-on implementation of React/Next/Gatsby stacks with system-level thinking across monorepos, GraphQL and modern state management.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
CS50, CS50 at Harvard OnlineEnglish German, English German at Julius-Mosen-Gymnasium OelsnitzAdvanced AI Engineering Artificial Intelligence, Advanced AI Engineering Artificial Intelligence at ScrimbaReact.js Development Salesforce, React.js Development Salesforce at Udemy AcademyFull Stack Open Full Stack JavaScript, Full Stack Open Full Stack JavaScript at University of HelsinkiFront End Web Development Full Stack JavaScript Computer Programming Specific Applications, Front End Web Development Full Stack JavaScript Computer Programming Specific Applications at Treehouse
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Github Skills (142)
python10
automation10
visual-studio10
declarative10
home-assistant10
hybrid10
javascript10
mqtt10
browser10
editor10
react-testing-library10
compiler10
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home-automation10
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jakeherp/idea-board
Aug 2019 - Feb 2025
A simple idea board app built with React and TypeScript
Contributions:23 PRs, 31 pushes, 32 branches in 5 years 6 months
reactbuilt-with-reactreactjstypescriptboard
jakeherp/react-weather-app
Jul 2019 - Mar 2025
A React / TypeScript adaption of a simple weather app I originally created in 2015 with vanilla JS / Foundation
Contributions:50 PRs, 72 pushes, 58 branches in 5 years 8 months
reactweather-appsimple-weather-appjavascriptvanilla-js
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