Jake Gentry
Director Of Technology at Target
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Gentry is a technology leader with a decade of experience building and scaling payment, POS, and customer data platforms at Target, now serving as Director of Technology. He combines hands-on engineering roots—from JVM microservices and Kubernetes to PCI-compliant payment gateways—with a track record of growing and empowering cross-functional teams. Jake prioritizes clarity, curiosity, and accountability to drive pragmatic decisions and steady progress in complex, regulated environments. Based in Minneapolis, he is as comfortable designing resilient store-level systems as he is leading strategic platform initiatives that unlock business impact. An early career background in manufacturing automation and revenue-cycle systems gives him practical depth in integrating legacy operations with modern cloud-native practices.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalaureate Computer Science Minor in Business Administration, Baccalaureate Computer Science Minor in Business Administration at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Github Skills (33)
code-generator10
oai10
swagger10
openapi-codegen10
swagger-codegen10
api-documentation10
api10
parsing10
rest10
springfox10
spring-data-rest10
rest-api10
stubs9
codegen9
json-api9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jkgentry/drone-sonar
Jun 2018 - May 2020
Sonarqube plugin for drone
Contributions:9 releases, 25 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 11 months
dronesonarqube-pluginsonarqubeplugin
jkgentry/docker-go-dep
Jan 2018 - Nov 2019
Golang with Dep installed for CI/CD
Contributions:3 releases, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 1 year 10 months
golanginstalledci-cddep
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