Nick Jacobs
Engineering Manager at Yoco
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Jacobs is an experienced engineering manager and hands-on software developer with over 25 years in technology and 30+ years of industry experience, primarily in financial services and fintech. Currently leading a full-stack team at Yoco, he blends Scala, JavaScript/React, and Postgres expertise to improve payments, operations, and partner integrations across distributed, international projects. He has driven high-stakes trading and risk systems at institutions like Barclays, Lehman Brothers, and Merrill Lynch, combining technical delivery, project leadership, and people management to improve performance and reliability. A lifelong learner and founder of a boutique web shop, he contributes to open-source Scala tutorials (enhancing type-system examples and tests) and brings a rare mix of low-level trading systems experience and modern web/payments architecture.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science at New York University
French, Japanese, English
Stackoverflow
325reputation
12kreached
4answers
1question
Github Skills (18)
sbt10
scala10
casting10
generics10
type-conversion10
error-handling10
basics9
testing9
learn-ruby-on-rails9
user-manual9
macos6
apache-kafka6
android-emulator6
haxm6
slick6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Baeldung/scala-tutorials
Jul 2020 - Oct 2020
Supporting code for the tutorials on https://www.baeldung.com/scala
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 32 commits, 9 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily worked on implementing and refining code examples related to Scala's type system. They added examples showcasing error handling using `Try` and `Option`, as well as demonstrating type casting and generics. Additional contributions include the creation of a class to demonstrate casting value types and the addition of tests to validate the examples. They also performed code clean-up and reformatting to maintain project standards.
sbtscalascala3
njacobs5074/programming-challenges
Sep 2021 - Nov 2024
Implementations of projects from https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/challengingprojects.html
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 3 years 2 months
eecsimplementationsutkjavascriptedu
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