Jake Trent
Senior Software Engineer at Lickety Bit LLC
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Trent is a senior software engineer with 14 years of experience building front-end platforms, design systems, and integrated customer communications for companies ranging from startups to enterprise teams. He combines hands-on engineering with leadership—having led Platform UI at Pluralsight, built telephony and CRM integrations as a principal engineer at Tomo, and now contributing at Angel Studios while consulting through his own firm. Jake is passionate about mentoring and cross-discipline collaboration, and he drives teams to go the extra mile while championing lifelong learning and craftsmanship. His open-source work includes practical UI-focused contributions like react-social-icons and an enhanced html-webpack template that improve developer ergonomics and responsive defaults. Equally at home pioneering new stacks or teaching others (Pluralsight author and former instructor), he blends curiosity about life with a practical appetite for creating useful tools. Colloquially inclined toward writing and speaking, he makes technical work accessible and motivating beyond pure code.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Brigham Young University-Idaho
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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13answers
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
css10
webpack10
svg10
front-end-development10
webpacker10
html10
react10
ajax9
json9
google-analytics7
ejs7
heroku6
asp-net6
jquery6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jaketrent/html-webpack-template
Dec 2014 - Mar 2021
a better default template for html-webpack-plugin
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 79 commits, 34 PRs in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jake primarily contributed to enhancing the HTML webpack template. Their work involved adding features such as mobile responsiveness, Google Analytics integration, and a dev server option. They also implemented support for custom app mount points, and injecting external scripts and links. Furthermore, the user refactored the template to support HTMLWebpackPlugin@2 and added support for inline manifest, baseHref, and lang options.
html-webpack-plugin
couetilc/react-social-icons
Mar 2015 - Feb 2019
svg social icons in react
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 101 commits, 19 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jake's contributions primarily focused on developing UI components for displaying social icons. They added a SocialIcon component and its subcomponents (Icon, Mask, Background) to handle icon rendering. The user also refactored the SocialIcon component to use SVG elements directly. They also added the example page with a library and adjusted the styles for sizes.
reactsvg
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