Jacob Silvia
Software Team Lead at WhatCharacter.com
Newbury, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Silvia is a pragmatic software team lead with 15 years of experience designing and shipping backend architectures and leading development teams at Bold Group. He built and scaled accounting and insurance platforms, authored an integrations framework for third-party services, and now oversees backend architecture and team delivery while still handling hands-on design. Creator and operator of WhatCharacter.com, he enjoys experimental programming and reverse-engineering challenges—work that reflects a rare blend of systems-level rigor from his NASA-related tooling background and product-focused engineering. Based in Newbury, Ohio, he combines strong technical stewardship with a preference for direct, transparent communication about opportunities.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Diploma at Cuyahoga Valley Christian AcademyBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (52)
dotnet9
asp-net8
dotnet-core8
linux8
asp-net-core8
csharp8
http-api7
css7
windows7
netcore6
concurrency6
attribute6
asp-net-mvc6
soap6
hangfire6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aethercowboy/territoreality
Mar 2020 - Feb 2022
A JavaScript library for creating, managing, and displaying custom maps
Contributions:34 PRs, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
javascriptmapjavascript-library
aethercowboy/advent
Dec 2017 - Oct 2023
Advent of Code C# Solutions
Contributions:1 PR, 54 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
csharp
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