Josh Jacobson
Ruby on Rails Developer at Left Field Labs, Lambda School
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Jacobson is a Ruby on Rails full-stack developer with 13 years of experience, now freelancing from Los Angeles and focused on education and entertainment clients. He blends practical web development—APIs and front-end ticketing systems for live events at Groupon—with a strong computer engineering foundation from Northwestern, giving him fluency in both high-level application design and low-level systems thinking. Comfortable across Ruby, JavaScript, and Python, he also teaches as an instructor at Bloom Institute, demonstrating a knack for mentoring and translating complex concepts. Josh excels at collaborating with product and engineering teams to ship user-focused features and tackle tricky technical challenges. He values projects that matter and brings a pragmatic, systems-aware approach to building reliable, maintainable software.
13 years of coding experience
B.S., Computer Engineering, B.S., Computer Engineering at Northwestern UniversityBS in Computer Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, BS in Computer Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Northwestern Univeresity
Spanish
Github Skills (9)
music5
architecture1
rails1
piano1
react1
redux1
react-rails1
ruby1
keyboard1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
josh-jacobson/bloomtech-acs-lecture-notes
Apr 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:50 commits, 43 pushes, 2 branches in 26 days
josh-jacobson/bloomtech-cs-lecture-notes
Nov 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:89 commits, 86 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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