Mike Jacobs
IT Program Manager at Samaritan's Purse
Boone, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Jacobs is an IT Program Manager and technical leader with over a decade of hands-on software experience and 20+ years in the industry, known for shipping pixel-perfect consumer apps and enterprise-grade web platforms. He combines deep React Native expertise with program-level delivery skills—having led Saddleback’s first in-house iOS/Android app and driven cross-functional teams supporting ministry operations in 100+ countries. Mike’s background spans frontend architecture, SDLC improvements, and team mentorship, reducing schedule variance and development costs through pragmatic processes and code-quality practices. He pairs formal coursework from UC Irvine and certifications from Meta and Google with boots-on-the-ground experience mentoring international teams and building IoT side projects. Outside work he’s an avid builder and outdoorsman, often applying hands-on tinkering to inform better user experiences and pragmatic technical decisions.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Experience Mapping Workshop - UX 2015, Experience Mapping Workshop - UX 2015 at Adaptive PathPycon Conference - 2012, Pycon Conference - 2012 at Python Software FoundationBachelor of Science - BS Candidate, Computer and Information Sciences, General, Bachelor of Science - BS Candidate, Computer and Information Sciences, General at University of California, Irvine
English, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
textinput5
react3
react-native3
rich-text-editor2
rich-text2
text-editor2
editor2
church2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
saddlebackdev/hc-app-icons
Mar 2022 - Apr 2024
Contributions:3 reviews, 17 PRs, 22 pushes in 2 years 1 month
mdjacobs/first-repo
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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