Jake Larson
Principal Software Engineer at Tripadvisor
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Larson is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building web platforms, now leading engineering at Tripadvisor from London. A University of Minnesota CS graduate, he brings deep front-end and back-end expertise across JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Java, Python and C, and a track record of progressing through multiple engineering roles at Tripadvisor. He launched and demoed his own large-scale note-taking web app, Lite Jot, gaining local media attention and demonstrating an aptitude for product-focused engineering and public technical demos. Comfortable shipping full-stack features and picking up new frameworks quickly, he has also driven modernization efforts (introducing React) on prior projects like Parentopia. Jake pairs practical product experience with a long-standing passion for web development that dates back to his teens, and is actively expanding into mobile development.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of MinnesotaWoodbury High School
English
Stackoverflow
25reputation
1kreached
2answers
4questions
Github Skills (66)
devise10
javascript-client10
authentication10
sdk10
monitoring9
django9
spree9
raven9
ruby9
sentry9
warden9
monitor9
rails9
prototyping9
angular8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jaketlarson/cooltip
Aug 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:100 pushes, 2 branches, 3 issues in 3 months
jaketlarson/lite-jot
Aug 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:43 pushes, 1 branch, 18 comments in 1 year
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