Jacob Rodgers is a Vice President of Technology with 11 years of hands-on experience bridging embedded systems and full-stack development, currently leading technology strategy from Denver. Trained as a chemical engineer at Colorado School of Mines, he brings a lab-to-production mindset—comfortable with bench-scale R&D as well as Yocto-built kernels and single-board Linux platforms. Equally at home in Python, BASH, and Linux as in Docker and Ansible-based DevOps, he has shipped embedded products and contributed maintenance fixes to notable open-source projects like the Litestar ASGI framework. His career blends startup and enterprise contexts—running community-facing Django/React services, leading embedded teams at CNH, and now overseeing technology at Escalon Services. A lifelong builder and self-taught engineer, Jacob pairs a pragmatic, construction-informed sense of structure with a collaborative, team-sports approach to leadership and continuous learning.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (A.S.) Engineering, Associate of Science (A.S.) Engineering at Red Rocks Community College
Bachelor of Science (BS) Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Chemical Engineering at Colorado School of Mines
Production-ready, Light, Flexible and Extensible ASGI API framework | Effortlessly Build Performant APIs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:14 reviews, 14 commits, 5 PRs in 2 days
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily focused on updating and maintaining the Litestar API framework. They made changes to the OpenAPI schema endpoint path, demonstrating work on API documentation. The user also addressed a typing issue in the application, fixing a Mypy error, and updating the codebase.
Django Backend for NGenius Gaming Website. Serves an Angular frontend
Contributions:5 PRs, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
pythondjango-rest-frameworkdjangogamingserves
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Jacob Rodgers - Vice President Of Technology at Escalon Services