Jacob Turner is a founder and full-stack engineer with 11 years of experience building production web and mobile apps, currently leading AI-Mithra and earlier founding ag-tech startup Plowshare. He specializes in React, Node.js, GraphQL, and Postgres, with hands-on expertise shipping React Native apps and managing build/release workflows (including Webpack/UMD and NPM packaging). Jacob has led migrations from legacy Angular.js to modern React at scale, run a consulting firm, and taught bootcamp cohorts—combining product leadership with practical engineering. An active contributor to OSS, he has improved libraries used in React/Firebase projects by fixing core sync functionality and preparing packages for distribution. Based in Salt Lake City, he blends founder-level strategy with day-to-day coding discipline and a strong focus on clean, intuitive UX.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Techstars
MEAN Stack Development, MEAN Stack Development at DevMountain
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Declo High School
:fire: A Relay inspired library for building React.js + Firebase applications. :fire:
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:43 commits, 20 PRs, 39 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily restructured files and prepared the codebase for an NPM release, indicating a focus on project packaging and distribution. Further commits reveal changes to the `index.js` and `src/rebase.js` files, suggesting modifications to the core library logic and its entry point. The user also addressed external dependencies by configuring Webpack for UMD and related adjustments, showing expertise in build processes. Additionally, the user fixed the syncState functionality.
Contributions:66 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 6 months
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