Jacob Swartwood
Software Engineer at Apple
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Swartwood is a seasoned software engineer and engineering manager with 15 years of experience building and modernizing web applications across retail and consumer platforms, currently leading teams at Apple in Pittsburgh. He brings deep full-stack expertise—from front-end performance and UI architecture to Java EE back-ends and data stores like Redis, MongoDB, and Oracle—paired with a proven track record of improving build/deploy systems and developer workflows. Comfortable in both Agile and Waterfall environments, Jacob excels at quickly learning new languages and tools (from Node.js and Rails to Python and C++) and driving teams to own complex projects end-to-end. He has repeatedly led migrations and rebuilds of legacy stacks, empowered teams through mentorship, and prioritized performance, scalability, and web standards. Outside of core engineering, his background includes hands-on systems administration and even running a small business, an experience that sharpened his operational and product-facing instincts. Colleagues know him as a problem-solver who seeks out the hardest challenges and turns them into reliable, maintainable solutions.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Pittsburgh
Github Skills (30)
sublime-text10
sublime10
inline10
lint10
highlighting10
syntax-highlighting10
alias6
literate5
api3
jquery3
adapter3
hubot3
svn3
parser2
restful-api2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jswartwood/jQuery-MochiKit-tags
May 2011 - Jul 2013
Contributions:13 commits in 2 years 1 month
dirtyaliasjquery
SublimeLinter/SublimeLinter-for-ST2
Mar 2012 - Aug 2013
Contributions:251 commits in 1 year 5 months
lintinlinesublimehighlightingsublime-text
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