Summary
Jacob Roufa is a seasoned web-focused software engineer with 13 years of formal experience and over 17 years working on web projects across non-profits, agencies, and product teams. He specializes in JavaScript/TypeScript, Web Components, and React/Redux, and currently builds a design system library for hospitality customers after progressing to Staff Engineer and a brief engineering manager role at Olo. Jacob has led small front-end teams, mentored developers, and delivered bespoke integrations for embedded devices and complex content-driven sites, showing a knack for pragmatic, maintainable UI architecture. His background as a long-time freelancer and open-source workshop developer signals an ability to move between hands-on implementation and developer education, often making conventional tools do unconventional things. Based in Belvidere, Illinois, he blends practical rural-rooted problem solving with enterprise-scale shipping.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Rock Valley College