Full Stack Software Engineer

I build fast, reliable web apps end-to-end

Hi! I'm Jacob, a full-stack engineer in San Jose with 7+ years shipping for the web.

I take products from idea to production — frontend, backend, and the infrastructure in between

Fully remote since 2019

I'm constantly improving

My tech stack

AWSKubernetesGolangTerraform

JestReactTypescriptPostgreSQL

7+ years building and shipping production web apps.

The Inside Scoop

Currently building a Hacker News client from scratch

Looking for a full-stack engineer? Let's build something great.

Selected Projects

Podio - AI Podcast Service

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An AI podcast platform where creators turn a single text script into multi-voice audio. Text-to-speech generates distinct voiceovers from one input, so a full episode can be produced without recording.

Built with Next.js 14, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Framer Motion, and Convex for real-time data. [Add what you owned or a metric — e.g. generation time, or the hardest problem you solved.]

Certified Expertise

Testimonials

Connor Phillips

Project Manager at Google

Jacob pursues his passion for programming off the clock by taking part in hackathons and making sure he's up-to-date on the latest tech through online training and being an active member in the engineering community.

Career Highlights

99.8%

Service uptime

80%

Less manual data entry

30%

Faster team onboarding

60+

Organizations served

MXS Solutions2019 - 2021

Front End Engineer

Led 18 templated webpage products (responsive, accessible, SEO/CRO) that lifted SERP rankings and raised click-through 20% on average. Built a reusable React and Tailwind CSS component and animation library that aligned with brand and compliance and increased delivery velocity 20%. Established scalable information architecture and naming conventions across 3 departments (42 people), shipped a new enterprise e-commerce site, and earned promotion to full-stack.

MXS Solutions2021 - Present

Full Stack Engineer

Architected a high-performance, API-first React SPA in TypeScript on AWS, and launched a design system and Storybook library that increased onboarding capacity 30% while unifying UI across products. Built a distributed financial-data aggregation service that cut manual data entry 80% and enabled 4 partnerships. Consolidated services into a distributed AWS architecture at 99.8% availability, drove Core Web Vitals and accessibility gains across 60+ organizations, and mentored junior engineers.