Jacob Wegner
Senior Staff Engineer at Gloo
Franklin, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Wegner is a Solutions Architect with 13 years of hands-on experience designing and delivering web and backend systems from Franklin, Tennessee. He has progressed from developer to chief architect and now leads architecture at Biblica, bringing practical experience in Django-based projects and long-term stewardship of production systems. Jacob contributes to open-source, notably improving Django user account tooling by modernizing signal handling and migration support, showing attention to maintainability and framework deprecation. His background includes leading engineering teams at Eldarion and product-focused roles at Signum University, balancing strategic architecture with day-to-day implementation. Early roles managing auction technology and A/V systems give him an uncommon blend of operations, customer-facing support, and software engineering. He is known for turning messy legacy codebases into maintainable platforms while keeping a pragmatic focus on shipping reliable features.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Belmont University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (7)
python10
back-end-development10
django10
database-migration9
database-migrations9
localization8
internationalization8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
pinax/django-user-accounts
Jan 2015 - Oct 2017
User accounts for Django
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 1 push in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Django-based user accounts system. Their work focused on refining existing features, correcting signal handling in forms, and updating the project to reflect the deprecation of Django's `get_current_site` function. They also added a `DEFAULT_LANGUAGE` constant and implemented migrations to support it. Their contributions directly improved the maintainability and correctness of the user accounts application.
django
scaife-viewer/hmt-cite-atlas
Oct 2019 - Oct 2023
HMT Cite ATLAS
Contributions:10 PRs, 16 pushes, 10 branches in 4 years
hmtatlas
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