Jesse Vista
Lead Full Stack Developer at Encoursa
Hudsonville, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolJesse Vista is a Lead Full Stack Developer and entrepreneur with 12 years of hands-on experience building and owning web applications across Laravel, LAMP/LEMP stacks, NodeJS, and modern front-end tooling. As President of UPWebDesign and lead developer at Mid-States Distributing, he drives full lifecycle delivery—intake, estimation, CI/CD, Gitflow, and long-term platform stability—while mentoring small teams and aligning engineering with business goals. His background includes founding and contributing to multiple ventures and contract roles where he built custom admin systems, APIs and payment integrations, often improving performance through targeted refactors. Detail-oriented and open-source-minded, Jesse focuses on Laravel-centric solutions and practical, maintainable code. Based in Hudsonville, Michigan, he combines entrepreneurial grit with a consistent track record of shipping customer-facing products.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Computer Information Systems, Bachelor's Computer Information Systems at Grand Valley State University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (76)
saml10
laravel10
profiler10
debug10
php10
idp10
tableplus10
sdk9
laravel-framework9
wrapper9
api8
forms8
endpoint8
admin8
cms7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
upwebdesign/sublime-snippets
Mar 2016 - Apr 2021
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
upwebdesign/grovo
Aug 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:87 commits, 74 pushes, 6 branches in 4 months
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