Jacob Wentz
Director - Software Engineering (Wave) at H&R Block
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Wentz is a pragmatic software engineering manager with 8 years of progressive experience leading teams and architecting solutions across airlines, retail, and government contractors. Currently managing engineering at JetBlue after roles as solutions architect and lead engineer, he blends hands-on development with people coaching to turn complex problems into scalable, maintainable systems. His background includes senior engineering and leadership stints at Bath & Body Works and ManTech, supported by a Master of Software Engineering from West Virginia University. Colleagues describe him as outcome-focused and invested in growth — he measures success by team improvement as much as by delivered features. Notably, he combines enterprise and aviation domain experience, making him fluent in both fast-paced consumer tech and compliance-driven engineering contexts.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Software Engineering, Master of Software Engineering at West Virginia UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Fairmont State University
Github Skills (8)
government-data10
visualization9
project-explorer8
fbi8
restful-api8
rest8
data-explorer6
python3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
fbi-cde/crime-data-api
Sep 2017 - Jul 2018
RESTful API service providing Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) data for the United States
Contributions:71 commits, 75 PRs, 135 pushes in 10 months
restrestful-apigovernment-datacrime-data
fbi-cde/crime-data-frontend
Aug 2017 - Jun 2018
Visualization and download tools for exploring the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) data
Contributions:106 commits, 244 PRs, 436 pushes in 10 months
visualizationgovernment-datacrime-data
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