Jacob Kaplan
Software Engineer at Contrast Security
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Kaplan is a software engineer with strong foundations from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and eight years of hands-on experience spanning web design, data analysis, and teaching. Currently contributing to Contrast Security’s NodeJS Agent team, he blends backend JavaScript expertise with a practical focus on secure, production-ready instrumentation. His background includes mentoring CS students as a teaching assistant and real-world data-driven work for municipal budgeting, highlighting his ability to translate complex data into actionable decisions. Comfortable across full-stack tasks from WordPress and front-end HTML/CSS to server-side NodeJS, he brings an analytical mindset and a history of reliable delivery in both startup and institutional settings.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.33, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.33 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
English, French, Esperanto
Github Skills (6)
contrast9
filename9
testing7
agent6
security6
operator2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jcolekaplan/WNCYC
Sep 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:45 PRs, 145 pushes, 26 branches in 7 months
jcolekaplan/computer_vision
Jun 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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