Jacob Schlecht
Sr. Backend Engineer at IllFonic
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Schlecht is a senior backend engineer with nine years of experience building microservice architectures and global-scale game backends, currently leading backend efforts at IllFonic. He has shipped server-side systems for AAA titles like Predator: Hunting Grounds and Arcadegeddon, bringing practical expertise in Golang, Python, Java, SQL, concurrency, cryptography, and crypto fundamentals. Comfortable in small, fast-moving teams, he combines solid computer science foundations with hands-on implementation of databases and distributed systems. His background includes full-stack work and an SDE internship at Amazon, reflecting a breadth from machine learning-adjacent projects to production services. Based in Golden, Colorado, he’s continuously expanding his skill set and enjoys tackling subtle problems in performance and security that often go unnoticed until they matter.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Oklahoma State University
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Github Skills (95)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Dadadah/ColonyPlusPlus-mod
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:48 pushes, 3 branches in 19 days
Dadadah/sql-schema-versioning-tool
Jan 2020 - Aug 2024
A simple tool for versioning and tracking SQL databases schemas inspired by Ruby on Rails schema migrations
Contributions:20 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 7 months
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