Matt Jacobs
Staff Software Engineer at Fastly
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Jacobs is a Staff Software Engineer in Denver with nearly two decades of experience building consumer-facing web products across industries from online dating to eCommerce and education. He blends deep hands-on engineering (focused the past 10 years) with product and design instincts, repeatedly shipping features for millions of users and new products from scratch. A former founder and product leader, he brings uncommon empathy for user experience into technical decisions and team leadership. His open-source contributions include full-stack improvements to ThinkUp, tackling UX issues like secure content loading, long-URL handling, and richer insight emails. Passionate about tooling for creators and collaboration, he prioritizes working with sharp teammates who raise the bar and make work engaging.
18 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BA, BA at University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Github Skills (13)
php10
emailjs9
email-templates9
e-mail9
url-encoding8
phpunit8
smarty7
facebook-graph-api6
html6
css6
perl6
facebook6
javascript5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ThinkUpLLC/ThinkUp
Jan 2014 - Nov 2014
ThinkUp gives you insights into your social networking activity on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and beyond.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:78 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on improving the front-end and backend of the application. This included addressing mixed content warnings by ensuring secure content loading. Further contributions involved refactoring the insight email notifications, including URL encoding and improved icon display, and adding support for hero images within insights. The user also made changes to address long URLs in the UI, including ensuring text wrapping.
social-networknetworkingfacebooktwitter-apisocial-media
capndesign/Blog-Shortcuts
Mar 2010 - Aug 2011
Contributions:20 commits in 1 year 5 months
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