Jake Jarvis
Residential Counselor at Spaulding Academy & Family Services
Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolJake Jarvis is a versatile full-stack web and mobile developer with 14 years of experience who pairs hands-on engineering with community-minded open-source work. Based in Manchester, NH, he specializes in Node/Mongo/Express backends and lean JS frameworks (React, Angular, Vue) while remaining fluent in PHP, Ruby, Python, Java, and C++. He maintains a practical DevOps focus—improving reliability in tooling like a popular s3-sync GitHub Action that hardens AWS credential handling and deployment flows. Alongside freelance web work and contributions to Hugo, WordPress, and VS Code, he participates in bug-bounty programs, bringing a security-aware mindset to projects. His background includes teaching and youth leadership roles that translate into clear communication and mentoring when collaborating with teams or clients. Currently balancing work as a residential counselor with ongoing freelance and open-source development, he blends technical depth with real-world empathy.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Southern New Hampshire UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Ridge High SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at Tufts University
Stackoverflow
31reputation
147reached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (15)
aws-s310
sh10
github-ci10
script10
shell10
aws10
githubaction-workflow10
devops10
scripting10
cicd10
bash9
htaccess6
html6
php6
facebook6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
jakejarvis/s3-sync-action
Aug 2019 - Mar 2020
🔄 GitHub Action to sync a directory with a remote S3 bucket 🧺
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:8 releases, 30 commits, 3 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Jake primarily focused on improving the functionality and robustness of a GitHub Action designed to sync files to AWS S3. They refactored the `entrypoint.sh` script, introducing features such as checking for required environment variables and allowing custom arguments. Further contributions included error handling improvements, such as gracefully managing the existence of the `.aws` credentials file and implementing a new approach using `aws configure` to avoid conflicts and simplify credential management. The user also addressed whitespace issues and improved the overall reliability of the action by defaulting to a region and cleaning up credentials.
syncdeploymentdirectoryaws-s3aws
jakejarvis/hugo-extended
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
✏️ Plug-and-play Node.js wrapper for Hugo Extended, the awesomest static-site generator.
Contributions:69 releases, 196 commits, 61 PRs in 3 years
hugohugo-extendedbinstatic-sitefront-end
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.