Jake Contractor
Principal Web Solutions Architect at Team Goblin
Libertyville, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJake Contractor is a Principal Web Solutions Architect with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and delivering pragmatic, results-driven web systems for enterprise and mid-market clients. He excels at consolidating complex legacy landscapes into unified, award-winning sites, coordinating DevOps across cloud architectures, and building bespoke tools—from proximity-based ephemeral chat apps to CRM automation—that reduce toil and drive measurable business impact. A former adjunct instructor, he pairs deep technical execution (Drupal migrations, custom modules, automated data pipelines) with a knack for mentoring teams on practical practices like Git and scalable deployment. Based in Libertyville, Illinois, Jake prefers short meeting cycles and direct, outcome-oriented engagement, trading tech buzz for solutions that move the needle.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Applied Science (A.A.S.) Digital Media: Web Application Development, Associate of Applied Science (A.A.S.) Digital Media: Web Application Development at Heartland Community CollegeMaster of Science (M.S.) E-Commerce/Electronic Commerce, Master of Science (M.S.) E-Commerce/Electronic Commerce at DePaul UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Lewis-Clark State College
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Github Skills (19)
breadcrumb7
openswoole6
programming-language6
socket5
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php3
socket-io3
websocket3
server3
swoole2
sqlite1
laravel-eloquent1
laravel1
pgsql1
query-builder1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
lakesta/pecee-pixie
Dec 2018 - Mar 2023
Lightweight, easy-to-use querybuilder for PHP inspired by Laravel Eloquent - but with less overhead.
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
laravel-eloquentquerybuilderphpoverheadlaravel
lakesta/mylilponies
Sep 2014 - May 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 1 push in 1 year 8 months
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