Jake Anderson
Senior Software Engineer at Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Boise, Idaho, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Anderson is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable backend services and APIs, currently shaping products at Encyclopaedia Britannica after senior roles at Optimism and enfuse.io. A BYU computer science graduate, he began his career implementing Java-based RESTful services at FamilySearch and has steadily expanded into cloud-native and distributed systems work. Jake blends pragmatic engineering practices with a strong focus on maintainability and scalable architecture, often taking ownership of complex integrations and performance tuning. Based in Boise, Idaho, he brings experience across both startup and enterprise environments, navigating fast product cycles and high-availability demands. Notably, his career progression reflects a pattern of stepping into senior roles where he accelerates delivery and mentors engineering teams.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Brigham Young University
Github Skills (43)
template-literals9
requirejs9
gulp8
gulp-plugin8
cra8
static-assets7
declare7
localization7
child-process7
react6
runner6
html-template6
angular-module6
buildpack5
defaults5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
fs-webdev/startup
Feb 2017 - Aug 2020
Node.js HTTP app runner
Contributions:3 releases, 9 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 years 6 months
node-jsnodejsapp-runnerrunnerchild-process
fs-webdev/feature-client.js
Feb 2015 - Oct 2017
Node client for consumption of XPRMNTL Feature
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 8 months
node-clientnodejsconsumption
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