Jacob Wallraff
Software Engineer at GitHub
Woodinville, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Wallraff is a software engineer with a decade of experience building SDKs, developer tooling, and CI/CD workflows across Microsoft and GitHub. He has deep cross-platform experience (iOS, Android, .NET/Xamarin, React Native) and a track record of shipping practical improvements to App Center SDKs and GitHub Actions starter workflows. At Microsoft he focused on full-stack SDK work and localization automation, and at GitHub he’s contributed DevOps-oriented scripts that keep workflows in sync across environments. Based in Woodinville, WA and trained in computer engineering at Iowa State, he combines systems-level thinking with attention to developer experience and has particular expertise integrating localization flows and multi-platform build/release automation.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Iowa State University
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Github Skills (40)
git10
github-ci10
ios10
react-native10
net10
xamarin10
dotnet10
react-native-component10
android-development10
asp-net10
automation10
localization10
sdk10
dotnet-core10
powershell10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/appcenter-sdk-apple
Mar 2017 - Feb 2020
Development repository for the App Center SDK for iOS, macOS and tvOS.
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:190 commits, 62 PRs, 196 pushes in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jacob's commits primarily focus on the localization of the App Center SDK for Apple platforms. They are involved in creating and updating localization scripts, specifically a PowerShell script named `TouchDownCheckinScript.ps1` for translating files using a service ("Touchdown"). The contributions include modifying the script to integrate with the localization workflow, update directory structures, add conditional authentication and refactor the process. Their work seems to be part of integrating with an external localization service (Touchdown).
appcenteriosmacostvos
microsoft/appcenter-sdk-dotnet
Oct 2017 - Feb 2020
Development repository for the App Center SDK for .NET platforms, including Xamarin
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:86 commits, 23 PRs, 65 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily focused on improving the .NET SDK for .NET platforms, including Xamarin. They were involved in various tasks such as implementing locale determination from the device, updating and correcting shared implementations, and adding default partitions. Additionally, the user worked on error handling and correcting shared implementations, demonstrating a good understanding of the SDK's internal workings. The user also contributed to the iOS version, making it full-stack, showing cross-platform work.
appcenterdotnetxamarin
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