Kenny Jacob
Software Engineer 3 at PayPal
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolKenny Jacob is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with 11 years of experience delivering production web and embedded systems, currently at PayPal after leading product and platform work at startups like Yellow and Matter. He combines front-end engineering, backend services, CI/CD, and analytics integrations to ship features end-to-end—examples include PDF generation, CMS/Search integrations, Mixpanel analytics, and transactional email pipelines. He has deep hands-on experience with automotive CAN bus tooling, building a Kotlin CAN decoder, USB adapters, and automation to convert Google Sheets to DBC files, enabling faster hardware-independent integration. A mentor who improves developer happiness and productivity, he’s repeatedly taken sole-ownership of internal tools and websites to unblock teams. Based in Bengaluru, he blends practical engineering with product empathy to turn ambiguous requirements into reliable, testable systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree Computer Science, Engineer’s Degree Computer Science at Mar Baselios College of Engineering and Technology (Autonomous) | Thiruvananthapuram | KeralaK12 High School, K12 High School at Loyola School Thiruvananthapuram
English, Malayalam
Stackoverflow
1,198reputation
85kreached
23answers
6questions
javascript
top-5%
axios
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
epub10
swagger10
material-ui10
oas10
inversion-of-control10
openapi10
swagger-ui10
api10
dependency-injection10
nodejs10
material-design10
python10
converting10
rest-api10
inversion10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
johnjacobkenny/abstract-interface-example
Aug 2016 - Nov 2020
A simple java app that shows how abstract classes and interfaces work
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 4 months
interfacesjavajava-app
johnjacobkenny/work-time-log
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:23 commits, 19 pushes in 2 months
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