Jacob Walker
Senior Software Engineer at Udacity
Wichita, Kansas, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Walker is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience and a decade of professional development, specializing in Go for the past four years and currently building at Udacity from Wichita, KS. He blends technical depth in backend systems, cloud-native practices, and observability with a business and teaching background—having trained over 900 developers across 23 organizations and contributed to well-known Go training and service starter repositories. His hands-on work spans secure, high-throughput financial APIs, multi-tenant services, CI/CD pipelines, and integrations with AWS, Prometheus, Vault, and OpenCensus/X-Ray. A clear communicator and community organizer, he’s shipped both production services and developer tooling (including run-in-browser training features) and brings a rare mix of classroom pedagogy and production engineering.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSB, Management, BSB, Management at Emporia State University
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Github Skills (28)
docker10
testing10
http10
dockers10
doctrine-orm10
go10
web-development10
post9
postgresql9
javascript9
php9
database-design8
kubernetes7
css7
kubernetes-pods7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ardanlabs/service
Jan 2018 - Jun 2019
Starter-kit for writing services in Go using Kubernetes.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:101 commits, 40 PRs, 80 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to improving the service's functionality by modifying database interactions, improving the docker test commands, and removing unnecessary errors. They refactored code to use 12-character IDs to avoid collisions, removed redundant commands, and improved the use of structure for `docker inspect` output. Additionally, the user made changes to the user and product packages, which included adding database interactions.
gokubernetes
ardanlabs/gotraining
May 2016 - Jun 2019
Go Training Class Material :
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:159 commits, 70 PRs, 136 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily worked on enhancing the `gotraining` repository by implementing features to run code samples directly within the training material. They added functionality to execute Go code snippets by adding a "run" button on the web interface, which involved modifications to both frontend JavaScript and backend Go code. The user also addressed spelling and grammar issues and made various improvements to the project's examples, including updates to tests and the use of `httptest.NewRequest`. Furthermore, the user refactored the web testing section.
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