Jacob Terry
Director Of Product Development at CxAlloy
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Terry is a seasoned product and engineering leader with 14 years of experience building SaaS businesses from idea to multi-million dollar revenue, currently serving as Director of Product Development in Atlanta. He combines hands-on PHP/MySQL/JavaScript expertise with strategic product management and an MBA from Georgia Tech to align engineering, sales, and marketing around customer-driven features. Jacob has a track record of assembling high-performing teams, instituting engineering best practices, and delivering scalable migrations and enterprise-grade web applications for public-sector and corporate clients. He also contributes to open-source, having improved CodeIgniter’s transaction handling—an example of his attention to robust backend behavior that underpins reliable products. Colleagues rely on him to translate market analysis into pragmatic technical roadmaps that consistently hit milestones and generate revenue.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), 3.97, Master of Business Administration (MBA), 3.97 at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor, Print Journalism, Bachelor, Print Journalism at Brigham Young University
Finnish, English
Stackoverflow
209reputation
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1answer
5questions
Github Skills (16)
transaction10
php-framework10
transactional10
php10
documentation8
history6
gsub6
activerecord6
javascript6
jquery6
amazon-s36
database6
jplayer6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bcit-ci/CodeIgniter
Nov 2011 - Jan 2020
Open Source PHP Framework (originally from EllisLab)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 8 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily focused on improving the CodeIgniter framework's database transaction handling. Their work involved correcting issues related to the `_trans_depth` variable, which impacted nested transactions. They added functionality to retrieve the transaction depth and later replaced it with a function to determine if a transaction is active. Additionally, the user updated the changelog and documentation to reflect these changes.
php-frameworkphpphp7php8
jerkob/php-salesforce-rest-api
Nov 2019 - Apr 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 6 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 5 months
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