Jake Varness
Senior Software Engineer at LifeStance Health
Grain Valley, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolJake Varness is a senior software engineer and experienced team leader with 11 years of practice building and securing scalable web platforms across healthcare and SaaS industries. He has led engineering teams at Cerner and Storable, progressing from hands-on C#/Java development to managing agile teams and later architecting critical infrastructure as a Staff Engineer. Notable accomplishments include designing an in-house document signing service that cut vendor spend by 99.99% and building a user management platform with SSO/MFA integration using Okta. Jake combines a mentoring mindset with continual technical learning, organizing cross-office hackathons and speaking at developer conferences to grow engineering culture. Based in Grain Valley, Missouri, he brings both operational leadership and deep implementation experience—comfortable moving between code, security integrations, and team development.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Eastern Washington University
Spanish
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Github Skills (82)
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chat10
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hubot10
javascript10
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browser10
validation10
flexbox10
compiler10
static-site-generator10
typescript10
gatsbyjs10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jvarness/cerner-2-to-the-5th
Sep 2017 - Oct 2020
Submissions for 2^5
Contributions:67 commits, 4 PRs, 71 pushes in 3 years
submissions
jvarness/hubot-barkeep
Nov 2015 - Jun 2019
Contributions:2 releases, 4 PRs, 12 pushes in 3 years 7 months
beerspythonhubot-scriptautomationhubot
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