Jake Gerber
Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Gerber is a Software Development Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience, currently contributing to Amazon’s Applied AI team from Bellevue. A UC Irvine computer science alum and prolific mentor, he built widely used educational workshops for Hack Club that reached tens of thousands of students and has maintained 50+ WordPress sites for a university office. His background spans full-stack and tooling work—from implementing algorithms in popular open-source repos like TheAlgorithms/JavaScript to scripting VR asset pipelines and migrating submarine safety data into MySQL at BAE Systems. Jake combines production-scale engineering with a passion for teaching and practical data-driven tooling, and his open-source contributions reflect a focus on clear, testable implementations and collaborative refinement.
9 years of coding experience
N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A at Agoura High SchoolUniversity of California, Irvine
Github Skills (7)
mathematics10
data-structures10
algorithms10
javascript10
math10
data-structure10
algorithm9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
TheAlgorithms/JavaScript
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
Algorithms and Data Structures implemented in JavaScript for beginners, following best practices.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 4 PRs in 14 days
Contributions summary:Jake primarily contributed to the implementation of mathematical algorithms and functions within the JavaScript repository. Their work focused on creating and refining JavaScript functions such as `isOdd` and `decimalIsolate`. The user also demonstrated an understanding of best practices by including testing using `console.log` calls and refactoring existing code. Additionally, the user collaborated with another developer on one of the commits.
javascript-for-beginnerscryptographyfollowingmathematicsjavascript
JakeGerber/hackclub
Sep 2020 - Jan 2021
🎓🏫 Hack Club is a nonprofit network of computer science clubs where members learn to code through tinkering and building projects
Contributions:218 pushes, 13 branches in 4 months
reactclubssciencepythonnonprofit
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