Jacob Spizziri
Director Of Technology at 5 Stones
Sycamore, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Spizziri is a Director of Technology with 12 years of hands-on experience leading full-stack development and engineering teams from Sycamore, Illinois. He blends product-focused leadership with deep technical contributions across web, mobile, and backend systems—ranging from Symfony/PHP stacks and Node.js to React Native and GraphQL. An active open-source contributor, Jacob has improved widely used libraries such as Apollo Cache Persist and cross-platform React Native audio playback, and maintained shipping integrations for e-commerce via Spree/Shopify carriers. He is known for pragmatic problem-solving: refactoring example apps, adding selective persistence mappers, and resolving complex merge conflicts to keep dependencies current. Colleagues rely on him to translate business needs into reliable, maintainable systems while still shipping code and demos himself.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Ryegate Public SchoolBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Montana State University-Bozeman
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Github Skills (41)
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javascript10
ios10
mobile-development10
react-native10
offline-mode10
audio-playback10
typescript10
offline-web-app10
react-native-component10
offline-js10
offline-app10
wpgraphql10
ruby10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
doublesymmetry/react-native-track-player
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
A fully fledged audio module created for music apps. Provides audio playback, external media controls, background mode and more!
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:166 reviews, 58 commits, 185 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to implementing new features across multiple platforms (iOS, Android, and Windows) for the React Native Track Player module. Their work included adding the ability to seek to an initial time when skipping tracks, implementing progress update events, and fixing issues related to track metadata. They also addressed platform-specific bugs, such as artwork display on iOS and issues with the stop function, while also improving the example app. Furthermore, the user refactored example code, refactored some state changes into a generic method, and provided documentation.
music-libraryaudio-playerplayerplayback-audiowindows
spree-contrib/spree_active_shipping
Apr 2015 - Aug 2015
Spree integration for Shopify's active_shipping gem.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 12 PRs, 13 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily worked on integrating and maintaining the `spree_active_shipping` gem, focusing on shipping calculations and integrating with various carriers. Their contributions included updating and overriding functionalities for carriers like UPS and Canada Post. They resolved conflicts from merges, refined existing code, and updated dependencies to ensure compatibility with the latest versions of the dependencies.
hotel-bookingshippinggemactive-shippingspree
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