Jacob Stetser
Lead Software Engineer at Target
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Stetser is a Lead Software Engineer in San Jose with 17 years of experience building social platforms, developer teams, and product strategy. He blends hands-on Ruby on Rails expertise (Redis, Sidekiq, Postgres, JS tooling) with a talent for integrating people and vision—having grown the Gaia/Zaadz community to over 220,000 members while managing a globally distributed engineering team. Comfortable at both startup and enterprise scale, he has held roles from CTO and platform lead to current leadership at Target, shipping scalable web and mobile features. Jacob is equally focused on usability and community dynamics as on code quality and agile delivery, bringing TDD/BDD practices to production. A former hotel night auditor turned technologist, he brings practical empathy and facilitation skills that help teams and communities grow.
17 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Harvard UniversityHamilton College
Stackoverflow
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2kreached
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Github Skills (7)
destroy6
ruby-on-rails6
ruby2
asset-pipeline1
rails1
handlebars1
pipeline1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wideopenspaces/acts-as-taggable-on
Jan 2009 - May 2011
Contributions:9 commits in 2 years 4 months
wideopenspaces/intrxn
Jan 2020 - May 2020
intrxn - a simple gem for managing interactions within workflows
Contributions:13 commits, 4 PRs, 11 pushes in 4 months
rubygeminteractionsworkflowsworkflow
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