Jacob Lyons is a pragmatic backend software engineer based in Portland, Oregon, with nine years of professional experience and six focused on building Node.js APIs and data pipelines. He designs and delivers end-to-end solutions—from Terraform-provisioned AWS infrastructure and Lambda/Step Function orchestration to RESTful APIs and ETL automation—often owning projects across diverse industries. Jacob has hands-on database administration and on-call experience, integrates chatbots and third-party services to streamline customer workflows, and brings practical CI/CD and testing discipline to production systems. Early work in mobile and web development plus a knack for unifying documentation and tooling hint at a talent for improving developer experience as well as user-facing features.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, cum laude - 3.61 GPA, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, cum laude - 3.61 GPA at Oregon State University
Studied Business, Computer Science, 4.00 GPA, Studied Business, Computer Science, 4.00 GPA at Cuesta College
Contributions:25 commits, 1 PR, 25 pushes in 2 months
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