Jake Verbaten
Staff Software Engineer at Socket
Orlando, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Verbaten is a Staff Software Engineer with 15 years building high-volume, stateful distributed systems and microservices, currently focused on backend and infra at Socket after a stint at sound.xyz. He specializes in RPC, routing, discovery, sharded clusters and multi-tenant gateways, prototyping in Node.js and productionizing systems in Go. At Uber he led next-gen routing and discovery and worked on resilient gateway platforms and sharding libraries; he’s also shipped profiling and monitoring tooling at NodeSource. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved tooling like npm/cli and popular JS projects such as JSHint, tape and virtual-dom, and often prototypes weekend ideas that explore new languages and subsystems. Based in Orlando, he’s passionate about self-healing systems and mentoring engineers while tackling problems that scale across many teams.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of Bath Computer Science with Maths, University of Bath Computer Science with Maths at University of Bath
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (60)
algorithm10
dependency-management10
json10
git10
algorithms10
compatible10
javascript10
c-language10
xmlhttprequest10
npm10
virtual-dom10
s510
package-management10
testing10
command-line-interface10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
naugtur/xhr
Apr 2012 - Jun 2015
A small xhr wrapper
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:103 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jake primarily contributed to the development of an XHR wrapper library. Their work included initial implementation, adding support for XDomainRequest for cross-origin requests, handling errors and status codes, and addressing browser-specific issues, particularly for Internet Explorer. They also introduced features like the `beforeSend` hook and implemented the `json` option for sending JSON data. The user focused on cleaning up the API surface and refactoring the code.
cross-originxhr-wrapperxmlhttprequestxhrrequest
tape-testing/tape
Nov 2012 - Dec 2020
tap-producing test harness for node and browsers
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 81 commits, 34 PRs in 8 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jake primarily contributed to the test suite of the `tape` library, focusing on enhancing its reliability and functionality. Their work includes fixing bugs related to asynchronous test execution, managing test concurrency, and improving error handling within the test runner. They also added features like `test.only` to isolate tests and improved the reporting of test failures by including more detailed stack trace information.
test-harnessbrowserstestingjavascriptnodejs
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