Jake Wilson
Senior Manager, Digital Development at Crocs, Inc.
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJake Wilson is a senior digital development leader with over a decade of hands-on engineering and 25 years of professional development experience, now leading front-end and digital initiatives at Crocs from Fort Collins, Colorado. He blends technical architecture and product-focused front-end expertise gained at companies like Salesforce, LiveArea, and OtterBox to ship performant eCommerce experiences at scale. An active contributor to prominent open-source projects such as Leaflet and reconnecting-websocket, he improves core rendering and connectivity UX while adding practical API features and documentation. Known for bridging team-level execution with technical strategy, he brings a pragmatic, user-centered approach to complex front-end systems and a background in mechanical engineering that surfaces in thoughtful, systems-oriented problem solving.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Double Star Ranger, Double Star Ranger at Trailhead by SalesforceBachelor of Engineering - BE Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Mechanical Engineering at John Brown University
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Github Skills (30)
opacity10
javascript10
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leaflet10
mysql10
css10
websocket10
sql10
android10
maps10
documentation10
api-design9
post9
sublime-text9
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
joewalnes/reconnecting-websocket
Dec 2014 - Dec 2014
A small decorator for the JavaScript WebSocket API that automatically reconnects
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 comments in 19 days
Contributions summary:Jake primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and usability of the reconnecting-websocket library. Their contributions include adding features like customizable options upon instantiation, allowing users to define settings like debug mode and reconnect intervals. They also improved the API by adding a public `open()` method for manual connection control and documented the library, clarifying usage and available options for developers.
apiwebsocketswsclient-sidejavascript-websocket
Leaflet/Leaflet
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
🍃 JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps 🇺🇦
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 71 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Jake primarily focused on improvements and refinements to the Leaflet library's core functionality. Their contributions involved modifying the vector layer rendering capabilities, adding the ability to specify renderers per pane. They also fixed code style inconsistencies and improved the logic of the control to prevent map refocusing under specific keyboard conditions, which enhanced user experience. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the library's internal structure and usability.
leafletjavascript-libraryjavascriptmapmobile-friendly
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