Jacob Singer
Founding Engineer at Freelance
Woodstock, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Singer is a founding engineer and full-stack generalist with 11 years of experience building zero-to-one products for seed-stage startups, most notably leading Verified Inc. through its first $6M in funding and 50k users. He combines hands-on product development across web, mobile (React Native), and server SDKs with infrastructure work—migrating a monolith EC2 setup to Kubernetes/EKS with Terraform and Helm—and has shaped hiring and engineering processes as a technical leader. Jacob now offers fractional engineering leadership and is open to remote senior full-stack roles that balance impact with better work-life fit. He brings a pragmatic, product-focused mindset shaped by repeatedly shipping critical features under pressure (including a frontend rewrite deployed hours before a company layoff) and a knack for interviewing and mentoring engineers. Notably, his career path reflects persistence and unconventional learning—cold-applying to hundreds of roles and learning through real-world systems rather than algorithmic interviews.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Political Science/Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Political Science/Medieval and Early Modern Studies at University of California, Davisweb development software engineering, web development software engineering at App Academy
Github Skills (82)
javascript9
linux9
entity9
filtering9
entities9
grid9
react9
nodejs9
sorting9
js8
pagination8
windows8
macos8
authenticate8
datatable7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jacobleesinger/jacobleesinger.github.io
Jan 2016 - Jan 2024
Contributions:6 PRs, 35 pushes, 5 branches in 8 years 1 month
UnumID/feathers-mikro-orm
Nov 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:9 releases, 86 commits, 59 PRs in 3 years 1 month
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