Jacob Nesbitt
Senior R&D Engineer at Kitware Inc.
Latham, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Nesbitt is a Senior R&D Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building and maintaining full-stack applications and backend systems, currently advancing research-driven software at Kitware. Comfortable across Python, JavaScript, C/C++, and Java, he pairs deep UNIX and deployment expertise (Docker, Nginx) with front-end skills in React/Redux and GraphQL to deliver end-to-end solutions. He has a strong track record in Agile teams and has contributed to notable open-source projects like Girder by implementing robust collection metadata and API enhancements. A Clarkson University computer science graduate, Jacob blends research-oriented R&D rigor with practical production deployments, often bridging API design and operational hosting in the same role.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Clarkson University
Github Skills (13)
api-rest10
rest-api10
api10
python10
data-management10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
test-automation9
mongodb-database9
mongodb9
javascript8
data-analytics8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
girder/girder
May 2019 - Apr 2022
A data management platform for the web, developed by Kitware
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & API Developer
Back-end Developer & API DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 82 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Girder platform by implementing and refining collection metadata features. They added the ability to set and delete metadata, including relevant API routes. The user also refactored existing code to add empty meta fields to new collections and ensured that metadata was included in API responses. Additionally, they added and tested functionality to support these changes, including collection and metadata handling.
data-analyticsdata-managementpythonkitwaredata-science
dandi/dandiarchive-legacy
Jan 2020 - Jul 2021
Code for the DANDI Web app
Contributions:108 reviews, 411 commits, 119 PRs in 1 year 6 months
reactmetadata-editorneurophysiological-datadandiset-browserbrainweb
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