Jakob Heuser
CTO, Co-Founder at Taskless
Redwood City, California, United States
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Top SchoolJakob Heuser is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 15 years of experience building observable, reliable systems and developer-facing tooling from Redwood City. As co-founder of Taskless he focuses on auditing and observability for third-party API integrations, and once detected an uptime monitor outage before the vendor noticed. His career spans senior engineering and leadership roles at Pinterest and LinkedIn where he led web, search, and core experience teams and helped roll out major platform transitions like React on web and Texture on iOS. Jakob combines hands-on front-end contributions to open-source projects (e.g., cross-domain messaging and UMD-friendly UI libraries) with a background in instructional tech, enabling him to translate complex engineering challenges into teachable, scalable solutions.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MA Instructional Science and Technology, MA Instructional Science and Technology at California State University, Monterey Bay
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Github Skills (9)
flash10
javascript10
web-development10
front-end-development10
webpacker10
webpack10
actionscript9
internet-explorer8
event-handling8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ericdrowell/ElGrapho
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs in 7 days
Contributions summary:Jakob focused on enhancing the front-end aspects of the ElGrapho project. They made the project UMD (Universal Module Definition) friendly, enabling compatibility with Node.js and webpack environments. Additionally, they updated the codebase to use a preferred window detector and merged updates from the upstream repository. The user also refactored and added new listener functions for the events.
oyvindkinsey/easyXDM
Mar 2011 - Jun 2011
A javascript library providing cross-browser, cross-site messaging/method invocation.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 PR in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jakob primarily focused on bug fixes and enhancements related to the easyXDM library, a JavaScript library for cross-domain messaging. Their contributions involved resolving issues with script tag termination, IE7 origin spoofing, and compatibility with MS Visual Studio. They also implemented support for Flash-based transport, including port handling, domain validation, and LocalConnection configurations for cross-domain communication.
cross-browserjavascript
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