Jake Engel
Staff Software Engineer at PayPal
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJake Engel is a Staff Software Engineer in Chicago with 11 years of experience designing and delivering mission-critical microservices across Node.js/TypeScript, Java/Kotlin/Spring Boot, PHP/Laravel, and modern front-ends. He has led architecture and migration strategies—most notably incrementally replacing a TypeScript service with Spring Boot Kotlin—while improving observability, CI/CD, and production incident response. Comfortable across cloud platforms and distributed systems, Jake leverages Docker/Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka/Avro, and AWS/Azure to build scalable event-driven ingestion and remediation workflows that saved thousands of manual hours. He pairs hands-on implementation with mentorship and cross-functional collaboration, having guided interns and led tech-planning sessions at Clearcover and PayPal. An engineer who started by building e-commerce and CMS systems, he brings pragmatic, full-stack instincts plus a knack for turning operational pain points into durable engineering solutions.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science - AS Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS Computer Science at Waubonsee Community College
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Jake0oo0/legacy.jakes.site
Aug 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:203 commits, 19 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 4 months
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