Jake Cooley
Senior Software Engineer at Ripple
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Cooley is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with nine years of experience building performant, user-focused web and mobile applications. At Smartsheet he drove large UX gains—halving initial page load times for complex sheets and shipping global undo/redo, local find for virtualized tables, and real-time text highlighting. He blends front-end polish with practical engineering discipline, contributing E2E tests, developer tooling, and security improvements while mentoring junior engineers. His background in behavioral sciences and full-stack training gives him a user-centered lens for designing intuitive features that reduce errors and boost productivity. Comfortable across React, React Native, Node.js, and testing ecosystems, he has a track record of modernizing legacy systems and improving developer workflows. Now at Ripple, he continues to apply that mix of product empathy and technical rigor to larger-scale problems in fintech.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development & Computer Science, Full Stack Web Development & Computer Science at BloomTechAssociate’s Degree Behavioral Sciences, Associate’s Degree Behavioral Sciences at Chabot CollegeGraphic Design Certificate Graphic Design, Graphic Design Certificate Graphic Design at Eden Area ROP
Github Skills (31)
ava9
server-side-javascript8
unit-testing8
testing8
javascript7
react7
server-side7
react-navigation6
ram6
react-native6
nakama5
react-native-web5
cpu5
architecture5
sprint4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Chooster/Personal-Website
Oct 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
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