Jake Kenneally
Senior Software Engineer at Tekmetric
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolJake Kenneally is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in frontend engineering, especially JavaScript/TypeScript and modern frameworks like Vue, React, and emerging toolchains such as Vite and Vitest. He designs high-performance, user-focused web apps across industries—data analytics, healthcare, finance, marketing, and AI—and has led migrations, built design systems, and optimized clients to render hundreds of thousands of features smoothly on maps. Comfortable full‑stack, Jake has shipped backend work in Java, Scala, Node, and Rails, contributed to GeoMesa (improving its DeDuplicatingIterator and schema deletion), and routinely champions developer experience improvements like hot-reloading and faster CI. A pragmatic problem-solver, he pairs deep web performance tuning with pragmatic product instincts, and off-hours he experiments with musical instruments and craft beer.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Ocean Lakes High SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at University of Virginia
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
locationtech/geomesa
Jul 2014 - Jan 2019
GeoMesa is a suite of tools for working with big geo-spatial data in a distributed fashion.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 39 PRs, 49 pushes in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jake primarily focused on refactoring and improving the `DeDuplicatingIterator` in the GeoMesa core, replacing ehCache with Guava cache for improved performance. They also implemented the `deleteSchema` functionality for feature types, ensuring proper metadata and table deletion. Additionally, the user contributed to consolidating unit tests and re-enabling FilterTester tests, alongside updating the text output for command-line exports.
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diduvawin/diduvawin.github.io
Jan 2015 - Mar 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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