Jacob Stopak
Founder at Initial Commit LLC
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Stopak is a founder and software engineer with 7 years of hands-on experience building developer tooling and Business Intelligence solutions, now leading Initial Commit to make Git and version control more intuitive. He combines deep enterprise BI administration and cloud support background with practical engineering—having implemented core features for a Git visual simulator that models commands like reset, revert, branch, and stash. Comfortable operating across startups and consulting engagements, Jacob designs automation and AWS-backed demos to streamline BI workflows and developer onboarding. His career traces from MicroStrategy cloud support into founding product-focused ventures, blending customer-facing troubleshooting with product development. Based in San Diego, he brings an engineer’s attention to detail and a maker’s drive to simplify complex tooling for everyday developers.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College Park
English, Spanish, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
git10
gitpython10
python10
manim10
visualizations9
command-line9
cli9
command-line-interface9
visualization9
javascript6
regex6
emoji6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
initialcommit-com/git-sim
Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
Visually simulate Git operations in your own repos with a single terminal command.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 9 reviews, 236 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Jacob focused on implementing the core functionality for a Git visual simulation tool. They added the initial features for simulating `git reset` and then expanded upon it with updates to the core functionality. The user's work included creating and displaying the commit graph. They also added subcommands for `revert`, `branch`, `tag`, `add`, `commit`, `stash`, `restore`, and `log`.
gitpythonmanimpythonpython3visualization
initialcommit-com/git-dummy
Feb 2023 - Feb 2023
Generate dummy Git repositories populated with the desired number of commits, branches, and structure.
Contributions:12 releases, 25 commits, 3 PRs in 6 days
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