Jake Geiser
Senior Engineering Manager at Best Buy
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Geiser is a Senior Engineering Manager with eight years of experience building performant, accessible, and user-centered web and app experiences at Best Buy. He blends hands-on front-end expertise—React, TypeScript, GraphQL, xState—and a focus on performance optimization and ML-driven personalization with cross-functional leadership in planning, data contracts, and developer efficiency. Jake has led major refactors, introduced lazy loading and observability, and driven measurable business outcomes like faster render times and impactful commerce features. He’s comfortable both mentoring engineers and stepping in on operational duties such as PagerDuty rotations, reflecting a pragmatic balance of delivery and reliability. Outside of work he channels his tinkering instincts into home projects and seasonal hobbies, a detail that mirrors his habit of iterating on developer workflows and internal tooling.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Finance, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Finance at University of St. Thomas - Opus College of BusinessSaint Thomas Academy
English, Spanish
Github Skills (37)
handshake10
fastest9
gatsby9
nodejs9
react9
graphql9
frontend8
compiler8
static-site-generator8
gatsbyjs6
syntax-highlighting6
gitbook6
plugin6
developer-tools5
documentation-generator5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
HandshakeAlliance/handshakealliance.org
Nov 2018 - Aug 2020
Home page for the Handshake Alliance
Contributions:195 commits, 4 PRs, 129 pushes in 1 year 9 months
alliancehome-pagehandshake
JGeiser9/JavaScript
Oct 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:6 PRs, 141 pushes, 4 branches in 11 months
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