Scotty Jacobson
Senior Software Engineer, Web Video Audio at Adobe
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolScotty Jacobson is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, maintainable web systems and developer-facing tooling, currently helping creators record and edit audio/video in-browser at Adobe. He has led cross-functional engineering teams to re-architect event platforms, replace costly SaaS with in-house systems, and ship measurable product improvements at companies like Chief and A.Team. Comfortable across the full stack, Scotty has boosted developer experience through testing frameworks, CLI tooling, and CI/CD optimizations that cut onboarding and build times dramatically. He’s also a founder and maker—bootstrapping a data-driven SaaS for musicians and writing songs as a creative outlet—bringing product intuition to technical decisions. Based in New York, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a taste for high-observability, incident leadership, and thoughtful DX improvements.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Tufts University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (106)
browser10
server-side-javascript10
server-side10
redux10
react10
javascript9
getopt9
command-line-parser9
snowplow9
compiler9
npm-package9
intercept9
hybrid9
vast9
nextjs9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ScottyMJacobson/snowplow-javascript-tracker
Feb 2019 - Feb 2021
Snowplow event tracker for client-side JavaScript. Add analytics to your websites and web apps. (See also: snowplow-nodejs-tracker)
Contributions:4 PRs, 14 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years
analyticstrackerclient-sideevent-trackerjavascript
ScottyMJacobson/magic-auth-context
Oct 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:23 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
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