Jacob Olson
Senior Software Engineer 2 at Redo
Provo, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Olson is a senior software engineer with seven years of experience building mobile and web SaaS products, currently at Redo after a multi-role tenure at Adobe. He specializes in React, Node.js, and Flutter, and has shipped cross-platform analytics and dashboarding features while earning two patents for innovations in visualizations and AI. Jacob has led small engineering teams and driven key product growth initiatives, including contributions to a YC-backed startup that helped scale early revenue. A bilingual communicator and former BYU Developers Club president, he combines technical depth with strong stakeholder and community engagement. Outside work he’s an avid snowboarder and guitarist—traits that reflect his hands-on, creative approach to problem solving.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Brigham Young University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
186reputation
594kreached
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Github Skills (36)
spectrum10
visualization9
charts9
react9
campus9
adobe9
quill7
compatibility7
wysiwyg7
swift6
text-editing6
swiftui6
rich-text-editor6
navigationview6
typescript6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
byudevelopers/BYUFreeFood
Oct 2021 - Apr 2022
A cooperatively developed React Native application built as a club project for event organizers to advertise their events where free food will be present and for hungry college students to find free food on campus.
Contributions:1 review, 37 commits, 19 PRs in 5 months
reacteventsreact-nativecampusjavascript
olsonjb/Pokedex
Mar 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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