Jake Foraker
Lead Mobile Engineer at Brainscape
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJake Foraker is a Lead Mobile Engineer based in New York with 11 years of experience building front-end focused, full-stack products for high-scale publishers and startups. He’s led mobile engineering at Brainscape after driving cross-platform and web initiatives at CNN, where he integrated React Native into native apps and supported CMS, APIs, and live-streaming web products. Comfortable across React, React Native, Node, GraphQL and cloud CI/CD pipelines, he pairs hands-on implementation with product-minded architecture and testing rigor. Jake’s background includes integrating diverse third-party APIs and shipping production apps to both app stores, reflecting a practical, end-to-end delivery mindset. Collected from a design-oriented BA and a career that spans startups to national media, he’s a lifelong learner who still prioritizes elegant front-end experiences.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design at California State University-Hayward
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
automation10
locker10
recording10
camera10
audio-recorder10
reloading10
orientation10
react-redux10
mobile10
react-navigation10
redux10
react-native-library10
starter-kit10
mobile-development10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jforaker/isitaturnerholidaytoday
Feb 2019 - Sep 2021
Contributions:6 PRs, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
jforaker/emoji-game
Oct 2017 - Sep 2021
Contributions:5 PRs, 11 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 10 months
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