Jakob Roberts
Senior Software Engineer Contractor at Forgehaven Inc.
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJakob Roberts is a Senior Software Engineer contractor based in Ottawa with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications, robotics systems, and cybersecurity tooling. He has delivered production software across industries—from hospitality platforms at SevenRooms to avionics and enterprise applications at Boeing and Teck—bringing both technical depth and operational maturity. Jakob combines hands-on backend and frontend development with practical security-minded engineering, having built monitoring and threat-detection web apps in a government security role. His robotics work involved real-time sensor integration (Velodyne LiDAR, Hokuyo) and multilingual voice recognition, showing an ability to bridge embedded systems and cloud-connected software. Comfortable in contract and team leadership roles, he also brings shop-floor engineering experience (welding and 3D design) that sharpens his prototyping and systems-thinking skills. Known for curiosity and adaptability, Jakob pairs rigorous engineering with a taste for remote, exploratory projects.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Software Engineering Communication and Networks, Bachelor of Software Engineering Communication and Networks at University of VictoriaWelding Level C, Welding Level C at Camosun CollegeEmergency Medical Responder, Emergency Medical Responder at Justice Institute of BCAutodesk Inventor Introduction to Solid Modeling, Autodesk Inventor Introduction to Solid Modeling at Imaginit Technologies
English, French, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (33)
shell6
bash6
forge6
python6
multithreading6
django6
minecraft6
celery6
postgresql6
forestry5
world-of-warcraft4
irc-bot3
hex3
discord-js2
discord2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Vealor/UVic-SEng
Dec 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:24 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
RunningDawn/the-broker
Sep 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:56 pushes, 1 branch, 5 comments in 4 years 6 months
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