Jake Pfaffenroth
Lead Engineer at Amissa Health
Bellingham, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJake Pfaffenroth is a Lead Engineer with 11 years of experience building API-driven web applications using React, TypeScript, and Node.js, currently leading development for an innovative clinical research platform. He combines hands-on architecture (monorepos, CI/CD, NX, GitHub Actions) with people leadership—mentoring engineers, managing timelines, and running production "go-live" deployments. Jake has a strong track record in healthcare and retail contexts, having led a major healthcare provider site rebuild and shipped features for Bed Bath & Beyond while improving CI and build tooling. His background as a social-science Ph.D. and field research lead gives him a rare blend of rigorous research methods, quantitative thinking, and product-minded engineering. He’s pragmatic about technical debt, prioritizing solutions that meet immediate needs and scale sustainably. Based in Bellingham, WA, he’s notable for translating complex stakeholder requirements into production-ready systems and for driving cross-team adoption of observability and project workflows.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Anthropology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Anthropology at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBachelor of Science (B.S.), Archeology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Archeology at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
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Github Skills (13)
proxy-server6
proxy4
ios4
debugging4
macos3
android3
react2
nextjs2
mongoose1
backend1
mongodb1
nodejs1
proxyman1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jakepfaffenroth/portfolio
Jun 2020 - Oct 2022
My personal portfolio site
Contributions:2 PRs, 41 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
reactnextjs
jakepfaffenroth/family-sharing-app
Jun 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:2 reviews, 28 PRs, 225 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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