Jake Lacombe
Senior Application Developer
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolJake Lacombe is a Senior Application Developer with 12 years of experience building full-stack Rails and JavaScript applications and a strong focus on UX and front-end engineering. Based in Kansas City, he has driven UI/UX improvements and component libraries at Cerner and Crema, contributing accessible, RTL- and mobile-aware React components to the widely used terra-core design system. A mentor and presenter, he regularly teaches CSS3 and JavaScript best practices and coaches junior engineers on pragmatic application design. Outside of enterprise work he founded TwistedHawk Studios and shipped three games for Android and web, bringing a game-design sensibility to user-centric interfaces.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor's of Science, Computer Science at University of Central Missouri
English
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Github Skills (13)
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react-components10
component-kit10
web-components10
react10
react-component10
ui-components10
javascript9
frontend9
accessibility9
css-modules9
web-framework8
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cerner/terra-core
May 2017 - May 2019
Terra offers a set of configurable React components designed to help build scalable and modular application UIs. This UI library was created to solve real-world issues in projects we work on day to day.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:56 commits, 113 PRs, 618 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Jake primarily focused on developing React components for the `terra-core` UI library, as evidenced by the implementation of a demographics banner and the creation of various form-related components (input, fieldset, field). They also worked on styling, theming, and accessibility improvements for these components, including adjustments for RTL and mobile layouts. Their contributions included unit tests and documentation updates.
dayterrareact-componentsreactjsmodular
codeforkansascity/tagging-tracker
Sep 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:59 commits, 14 PRs, 50 pushes in 5 months
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