Summary
Jacob Scott is a senior software engineer based in Grand Rapids with 9 years of professional experience and a 6+ year focus on backend systems. He has shipped full-stack web applications at scale for Fortune 500 manufacturers and consumer companies, notably improving operational efficiency in Ford’s manufacturing facilities and modernizing payments and reporting systems at Amway using AWS, Java Spring, and Angular/TypeScript. Comfortable owning services end-to-end, he favors test-driven development, frequent pair programming, and pragmatic cloud-native design patterns that reduce operational friction. Jacob’s career shows a steady trajectory from hands-on internships to leading core production work, and he brings an engineer’s attention to process improvement informed by both embedded systems and large enterprise environments. An adaptable collaborator, he combines manufacturing-domain impact with a proven track record of turning proofs-of-concept into production features.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Penn State University
High School, High School at The Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School
English