Jacob Proffer
Senior UI Developer at Elegant Seagulls
Michigan, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJacob Proffer is a Senior UI Developer with a decade of front-end experience building inclusive, high-performance websites using WordPress, Next.js, Hugo, and headless CMS like Contentful. He specializes in custom WordPress themes (ACF/PHP), accessibility remediation to WCAG standards, and multilingual workflows using tools such as Transifex. Jacob consistently bridges design and engineering to deliver pixel-perfect, performant landing pages and SaaS sites, often leveraging Jamstack principles for speed and scalability. Based in Michigan, he has grown through roles at Elegant Seagulls from intern to senior technical lead, demonstrating deep institutional knowledge and ownership of end-to-end front-end delivery. He pairs a Computer Art degree and visual sensibility with pragmatic engineering practices, making accessibility and localization tangible product improvements.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Art, 3.62 GPA, Bachelor's degree, Computer Art, 3.62 GPA at Northern Michigan University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (35)
netlify10
hugo9
hugo-theme9
redirect8
refresh8
movie8
alien8
obsidian7
bitly6
questions-and-answers6
java6
redirect-urls6
amazon5
recreate5
jsdelivr5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jacobproffer/blog
Sep 2016 - Feb 2023
Personal blog, built with Hugo. Served with Netlify.
Contributions:749 commits, 638 PRs, 1063 pushes in 6 years 5 months
hugohugo-themenetlify
jacobproffer/weyland-yutani
May 2017 - Aug 2024
A refresh of my 2015 Alien Day site, now built with Hugo.
Contributions:74 PRs, 177 pushes, 79 branches in 7 years 4 months
hugoalienrefreshdayhugo-theme
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.