Mark Jacobs
Associate Principal Software Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolMark Jacobs is an Associate Principal Software Engineer in Chicago with 11 years of experience accelerating front-end delivery through design systems, script automation, and test-driven development. He builds scalable component libraries and web platform tooling in React to help teams ship consistently and faster, currently leading design system work at OCC. Prior roles as a front-end team lead and senior engineer at Albert and Rantizo demonstrate his ability to grow teams and operationalize best practices across product-focused organizations. His background in English literature and creative writing gives him a knack for clear documentation and crafting developer-friendly UX patterns that reduce onboarding friction. Colleagues rely on him to translate product goals into maintainable front-end architecture and repeatable workflows.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (M.A.) English Literature, Master of Arts (M.A.) English Literature at DePaul University
Stackoverflow
593reputation
27kreached
12answers
10questions
Github Skills (20)
javascript10
css10
codebase10
math10
ruby10
html10
nodejs10
ruby-on-rails10
react10
certification9
web-development9
screen-reader6
edtech6
open-source6
json6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mattlayton1986/crwn-clothing
Sep 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:59 commits, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
mattlayton1986/yelpcamp
Jan 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:31 pushes, 21 branches in 17 days
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.