Jacob Yanicak
Software Development Engineer III at Workday
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Yanicak is a Software Development Engineer III with nine years of experience building authentication and verifiable-credential systems at Workday, backed by an AWS Developer certification. He brings deep practical knowledge of SAML, OIDC, and authentication security, honed alongside prior blockchain and API work at Merck's digital supply chain and innovation teams. Jacob's background blends production-grade backend engineering in Node.js and MongoDB with data-science training (MS in Data Science), enabling him to bridge secure identity systems and data-driven features. Early career roles in automation and UAT delivered measurable process improvements—one automation cut weekly intake time by 98%—showing a knack for pragmatic tooling and operational rigor. Based in San Francisco, he pairs enterprise security expertise with hands-on implementation experience across startups and large organizations.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Data Science, Master of Science - MS Data Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology
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Github contributions (5)
yanicakj/University_Heights_Connect
Feb 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
sammyfaraj/HackNJIT2019
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:14 commits, 10 pushes in 1 month
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