Jake Westerfield
Product Software Development Engineer at Warner Bros. Discovery
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolJake Westerfield is a Product Software Development Engineer and U.S. Navy veteran with nine years of experience building scalable full‑stack applications and CI/CD pipelines. He currently drives API integrations, workflow automation, and Kubernetes-backed deployments at Warner Bros. Discovery using JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, Jenkins, Spinnaker and Docker, and has hands-on experience with GraphDBs (Neo4j), PostgreSQL and monitoring with DataDog. Jake’s background spans front-end React/Redux work, backend WebAPI/Springboot services, and automation/integration tooling (Slack SDKs, Google Apps Script, Zapier/Integromat), enabling him to translate complex product needs into reliable production workflows. He’s adept at debugging across stacks, mentoring non-technical stakeholders, and improving team collaboration—once increasing Slack engagement 46% via champion programs and training. Outside work he pursues machine learning, cloud tech, travel and scuba diving, reflecting a curiosity that drives him to tinker with new languages and prototype ambitious integrations.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.S.), Economics, Bachelor of Arts (B.S.), Economics at Northern Illinois University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
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react10
math9
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certification8
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visual-studio6
cmd6
health3
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
JSWesterfield/My-Portfolio-Site
Feb 2017 - Mar 2020
👓Developer porfolio site
Contributions:90 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
herokuexpressmongooseajaxmongodb
JSWesterfield/slackBotApi
Jan 2020 - Jun 2020
🤖📲🔔👻SlackBotAPI built for pulling in data and sending notifications on member entering or leaving a channel using 'ephemeral' notifications
Contributions:1 PR, 120 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
ephemeralmembersending-notificationsnotificationsslackbotapi
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