Jacques Marcotte
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacques Marcotte is a senior software engineer in Chicago with over a decade of hands-on LAMP-stack experience and an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology. He has progressed from architecting large PHP/Perl platforms and multi-network systems to leading engineering teams at property-focused sites like 55Places and Neighborhoods.com, and now contributes to WiseTech Global. Jacques combines deep backend architecture skills—search, API design, caching, and high-throughput email systems—with practical project leadership and a passion for making engineering teams more productive and enjoyable. Notably, he has repeatedly led multi-site integrations and complex search and aggregation projects that balanced performance, scalability, and real-world business needs.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology
Github Skills (43)
searching10
algolia9
php9
code-generation9
filtering9
strongly-typed8
interpreter8
storm7
typescript7
symfony7
dedicated-server7
task-management6
bundle6
database5
steam5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
neighborhoods/BuphaloFitness
Oct 2019 - Jul 2023
Fitness Functions and Use Cases for Testing and Demonstrating Buphalo Functionality
Contributions:10 PRs, 6 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 9 months
testing
neighborhoods/PrefabFitness
Oct 2019 - Feb 2022
Fitness UseCases for Prefab.
Contributions:3 reviews, 5 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 4 months
fitnessprefabusecases
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