Jake Funke
Senior Software Engineer at Wellth
Santa Barbara, California, United States
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Top SchoolJake Funke is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable backend systems and full-stack features across healthcare communications, media voting platforms, and developer tooling. Based in Santa Barbara, he has recently focused on TypeScript backends hosted on AWS ECS with MongoDB and PostgreSQL, enabling bidirectional messaging for B2B healthcare at Artera and now contributing to Wellth. His career shows a strong operational bias—designing for scale and reliability in live television voting systems, automating deployments, and improving developer workflows with internal tooling. Comfortable across embedded C/C++ firmware, PHP/Laravel, and modern cloud stacks, he combines deep system-level debugging with product-driven feature delivery. Jake’s background in both customer-facing support and high-stakes production events gives him a pragmatic sense for prioritizing robustness and observability in fast-changing environments.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering at North Carolina State UniversityHS Diploma, HS Diploma at William G. Enloe High School. GT/IB Center for Humanities, Sciences, and Arts
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jifunks/botany
Mar 2017 - Oct 2022
command line virtual plant buddy
Contributions:4 reviews, 160 commits, 29 PRs in 5 years 8 months
plantunixtildebuddygarden
jifunks/personal-site
Mar 2018 - Nov 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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