Jake Jarrett
Senior Frontend Engineer at LocalAgentFinder
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolJake Jarrett is a Senior Frontend Engineer based in Melbourne with 11 years of experience crafting polished, user-focused web and desktop interfaces. He has held senior roles at Blackmagic Design and LocalAgentFinder and shipped UI work at scale across product and platform teams at Atlassian and PointsBet. Jake combines strong front-end engineering skills with practical UX sensibilities—evidenced by contributions to the open-source Soundnode desktop app where he implemented OS X menu integrations, window scaling, and precise song scrubbing. Known for turning stakeholder requirements into maintainable front-end systems, he’s comfortable across Electron, Angular.js and modern web stacks. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who blends attention to detail with product-minded thinking.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bacchus Marsh CollegeCertificate 3 - Creative Industries & VCAL Senior Creative Industries, Certificate 3 - Creative Industries & VCAL Senior Creative Industries at Harvester Technical College
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Github Skills (8)
javascript10
ui-design10
electron10
desktop-application10
angularjs10
css7
html7
nodejs7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Soundnode/soundnode-app
Jan 2015 - Feb 2020
Soundnode App is the Soundcloud for desktop. Built with Electron, Angular.js and Soundcloud API.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 69 commits, 66 PRs in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jake primarily contributed to the user interface and application menu of the Soundnode App, which is a desktop application. They implemented and refined the OS X application menu, including adding custom menu items for file, playback, and help functions. The user also introduced UI improvements, settings page, and incorporated features like window scaling and song scrubbing.
angularjselectronsoundcloudjavascriptmusic-player
jakejarrett/turbo-couscous
Aug 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:43 commits, 66 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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