Jake Gavin
Senior Software Engineer at Cruise
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Gavin is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with 11 years of experience building and scaling web products across startups and established teams. He blends a physics-astronomy analytical background with hands-on full‑stack skills (TypeScript, React, Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, MongoDB) to drive product-focused technical decisions and improve developer experience. At LiveStories he led small pods to ship new offerings, reworked front-end architecture for reuse, and championed TypeScript, CSS-in-JS, and CI practices; he now applies that same discipline at Cruise. Jake is comfortable mentoring and interviewing engineers, writing tech specs, and influencing UX through close product collaboration. He enjoys exploring new programming languages and unconventional technologies to reframe how problems are solved.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Physics-Astronomy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Physics-Astronomy at Whitman CollegeTealeaf Academy
Github Skills (129)
opal10
ruby10
formatter10
react-rails10
yaml10
html10
json10
integrate10
rails10
draft-js10
asset-pipeline10
sprockets10
printer10
webpacker10
react10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jakegavin/tether-rails
Mar 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:4 releases, 11 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year
rails-asset-pipelinepipelinerailsrubyasset
jakegavin/react-rails
Mar 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
reactruby-gemrailsrubygem
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