Jake Howerton
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarJake Howerton is a technology generalist with 18 years of experience across telecom, server architecture, and web and mobile applications, based in Austin, Texas. He specializes in mobile transactions, real-time payments, and open transaction protocols, bringing deep Ruby and Ruby on Rails expertise to payment and routing challenges. Jake pairs hands-on engineering—deployment strategy, network design, and server architecture—with marketing, branding, and design sensibilities that help products resonate with users. He’s comfortable operating across the full stack and the infrastructure layer, translating complex transaction flows into reliable, production-grade systems. An unusual strength is his combined telecom and web-payments background, which gives him a systemic view of routing, latency, and reliability in financial mobile systems.
18 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (115)
rspec10
ember-cli10
mvc10
ruby10
api10
html10
rails10
command-line-utility10
rubygems9
javascript9
docker-compose9
waffle9
ai9
ruby-application9
reverse-proxy9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
zipmark/zipmark-ruby
Oct 2012 - Jul 2015
Contributions:40 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 2 years 9 months
api-clientapiruby-clientruby
jakehow/rails
May 2016 - Oct 2021
Ruby on Rails
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 6 months
ruby-on-railsrails-apirailsrails-engineruby
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