Jake Smith
Independent Product & Platform Developer
Colorado, United States
Summary
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SeniorJake Smith is a solutions-focused Partner Co-Founder and engineer with 10 years of experience building full-stack growth systems, payments integrations, and AI-powered automation for consumer products and platform partners. Based in Colorado, he has led end-to-end product architecture and App Store launches for a fitness app while previously shaping payments and compliance features at PayPal and checkout platforms at Bold Commerce. Comfortable bridging technical execution and partner-facing roles, Jake translates partner feedback into product requirements, designs high-converting acquisition funnels, and instruments analytics to optimize ROAS and CAC. He pairs hands-on development in Node.js, TypeScript, React, and MongoDB with pragmatic risk-aware product tradeoffs—an approach honed across BigCommerce enterprise implementations and partner solutions engagements. Unusually, he combines startup founder grit with deep operational experience in regulated payments and automated SEO and marketing pipelines, and he’s also a husband and father who keeps engineering work grounded in real-world outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (20)
bigcommerce9
cornerstone9
spring-boot8
java8
heroku8
ecommerce7
reserve7
spring5
checkout4
sdk-nodejs4
docker4
utilization4
coupon2
javascript2
obsolete2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bold-commerce/bigcommerce-create-subscription
Mar 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:36 commits, 12 PRs, 20 pushes in 5 months
bold-commerce/pre-storefront-woo-example
Mar 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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