Jacob Pargin
Head Of Engineering at Save My Exams
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJacob Pargin is an Engineering Manager based in London with 11 years of experience leading and scaling web engineering teams across education, fintech, and incident response startups. He combines hands-on full-stack development (earlier roles at GoCardless and Farewill) with people management and operational focus, currently shaping engineering at Save My Exams while consulting through Toast Solutions. Jacob has a track record of moving between individual-contributor and leadership roles, which helps him bridge product, customer support, and developer experience effectively. His background running developer support at GoCardless and later building product teams gives him a pragmatic view of technical trade-offs and a knack for improving incident response and developer workflows.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computing, Computing at The Open University
Github Skills (129)
serverless10
client-library10
bull10
gocardless10
dao10
bullmq10
batch-request10
nodejs-client10
database10
apollo-link10
googleapis10
google-api10
database-tools10
session-replay9
javascript9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jacobpgn/apoq
Jun 2020 - Aug 2021
PostgreSQL-backed Node.js task queue
Contributions:3 releases, 57 PRs, 60 pushes in 1 year 2 months
nodejspostgresqltask-queue
jacobpgn/kysely
Nov 2022 - Jan 2026
A type-safe typescript SQL query builder
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
querymysqlsqlbuildertype-safe
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