Jacob Oakes
Principal Software Engineer at BILT Incorporated
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Oakes is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and shipping resilient, scalable systems from mobile apps to serverless backends. Based in Indianapolis, he has led architecture and engineering efforts at startups and scale-ups—driving real-time data pipelines, offline-capable mobile sync, single-table DynamoDB design, and zero-downtime migrations. He combines pragmatic hands-on coding (iOS, Flutter, React/React Native, TypeScript, Ruby, AWS Lambda) with team-building activities like lunch & learns, hiring exercises, and mentoring. Notably, he has repeatedly improved delivery velocity and reliability—bringing legacy systems to high test coverage, cutting build times with Docker parallelization, and adding distributed tracing for easier debugging. Jacob excels at translating complex product requirements into maintainable architectures that work in constrained or intermittent network environments.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (57)
graphql-subscriptions10
elm10
java9
rest9
android9
typesafe9
openapi9
rest-api9
graphql8
aws-mobile8
code-generation8
http-client8
aws8
typescript8
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
oakesja/elm-news
Jun 2016 - May 2021
All elm news in one place
Contributions:195 commits, 14 PRs, 178 pushes in 4 years 11 months
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oakesja/xbox-live-api
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:2 releases, 24 commits, 27 pushes in 2 months
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