Jake Barber
Smart Contract Engineer at GFX Labs
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Barber is a Smart Contract Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building secure, production-ready software and infrastructure. Trained in database design and information security, he blends a background in incident management for federal Windows systems with modern full-stack development using React, AWS, and blockchain technologies. He has moved from Tier 1 IT and customer support roles into specialized smart contract work at Swingby Labs and GFX Labs, demonstrating a practical understanding of both operational resilience and decentralized systems. Jake’s profile reflects a developer who can trace issues from frontend UX through cloud deployments to on-chain logic, making him effective at bridging product, ops, and security concerns. Based in the Greater Chicago Area, he brings a pragmatic, security-minded approach to smart contract engineering and back-end architecture. An under-the-radar strength is his ability to apply forensic troubleshooting techniques from federal IT incidents to prevent and resolve complex bugs in distributed applications.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology, Database, Information Security, Bachelor of Information Technology, Database, Information Security at Radford University
Github Skills (14)
contract10
arweave10
ethereum-contract10
ethereum10
data-exchange10
blockchain9
smart-contracts9
filter6
lists5
token-list4
security4
adblock4
ublock-origin2
filterlist1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SwingbyProtocol/skybridge-contract
Jul 2021 - Feb 2022
📝 Skybridge Smart Contract
Contributions:134 commits, 18 PRs, 83 pushes in 7 months
ethereum-contractdata-exchangesmart-contractethereumcontract
gfx-labs/oku-custom-order-types
Nov 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 33 pushes, 5 branches in 3 months
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