Jacob Rienstra
Software Engineer at Caper
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Rienstra is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building front-end and full-stack products for startups and large platforms, currently based in New York and working at Caper. He has a track record at Meta and Directus where he shipped reusable UX systems and contributed notable front-end components—such as implementing the list component and interaction behaviors for the popular Directus headless CMS. Comfortable across React-based front ends and collaborative product teams, he has repeatedly turned design and data requirements into measurable UX improvements. A Harvard Computer Science graduate, he blends open-source contribution habits with production delivery experience, and his GitHub bio’s lighthearted “live laugh love” hints at an easygoing, team-friendly approach to engineering.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
A.B. Computer Science, A.B. Computer Science at Harvard University
English
Github Skills (16)
component-development10
uid10
typescript10
directus10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
vue10
typescript-types10
javascript9
css9
sass9
testing6
cms4
api4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
directus/directus
Feb 2020 - Aug 2021
The flexible backend for all your projects 🐰 Turn your DB into a headless CMS, admin panels, or apps with a custom UI, instant APIs, auth & more.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 21 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily focused on developing the list component within the Directus project. Their contributions involved implementing the MVP of the list component, including adding the necessary files, styling, and making it functional. They worked on making the density and navigation features work, as well as ensuring hover and click events function correctly. They also added stylelint prettier to yarn lock and registered list and list item globally.
cmsno-codecollaborationintuitivevue
jacobrienstra/notetime
Jan 2022 - Aug 2023
Time-stamped note taker
Contributions:2 PRs, 29 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 6 months
note-takernotestaker
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