Jake Orr
Senior Developer II at Bit Complete
Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolJake Orr is a Senior Developer II with over a decade of hands-on experience building scalable, high-performance web and serverless applications, specializing in React, TypeScript, Next.js, Node.js and Google Cloud. He consistently drives frontend architecture and standards—creating company-wide style guides, shared component strategies, and CI/CD pipelines—while remaining a focused individual contributor who owns complex technical challenges. Jake has led end-to-end platforms from multi-merchant ecommerce with payment-splitting logic to healthcare SaaS, and contributed backend improvements to the popular agenda/agenda Node.js job scheduler to improve reliability around priorities, locking, and timezone cron handling. Known for meticulous process design, cross-functional communication, and mentoring, he pairs practical engineering with proactive risk mitigation in security and performance. Based in Kelowna, BC, he’s seeking senior IC roles where he can continue shaping developer workflows and delivering elegant, maintainable user experiences.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Honours in Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Honours in Computer Science at The University of British ColumbiaComputer Information Systems Diploma, Computer Science, Computer Information Systems Diploma, Computer Science at Okanagan College
Japanese
Stackoverflow
381reputation
17kreached
6answers
4questions
Github Skills (17)
cron10
job-scheduler10
mongodb-database10
nodejs10
mongodb10
job-scheduling10
javascript9
timezone9
testing8
appcelerator6
nightmare6
yaml6
amazon-web-services6
google-app-engine6
authentication6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
agenda/agenda
Dec 2015 - Mar 2016
Lightweight job scheduling for Node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 8 PRs, 52 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jake primarily contributed to the backend logic of the agenda/agenda project, focusing on job scheduling and management. They implemented features related to job priority, on-the-fly locking mechanisms, and retry functionality. The user also made changes to improve the CronTime handling with timezones and addressed related bugs. Their contributions significantly impacted the reliability and flexibility of the job scheduler.
schedulerjobcronschedulerunner
jakeorr/eternal-ratings-api
Mar 2019 - Mar 2020
A card rating tool for Eternal
Contributions:22 commits, 6 PRs, 19 pushes in 11 months
ratingtypescripteternal
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