Summary
Jake Love is a Senior Solutions Architect based in Portland with 13 years of professional experience and nearly 20 years building for the web, specializing in full‑stack development and enterprise design systems. He guides Fortune 100–500 clients through end‑to‑end design system strategy and implementation, bridging design and engineering to deliver scalable component libraries, design tokens, and DevOps workflows. A founding early employee at Basalt/Knapsack, he helped evolve a digital agency into a SaaS design system platform and built starter kits now used across customers. His background spans high‑profile clients like Twitter, the NBA, Johnson & Johnson and Memorial Sloan Kettering, giving him deep experience in both CMS‑driven and modern framework architectures. Equally comfortable speaking to executives or pairing with engineers, he’s known for turning complex technical requirements into simple, elegant product experiences. Outside projects, he’s an outspoken proponent of Knapsack-style tooling and design systems as a single source of truth.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Web Development, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Web Development at The Art Institutes