# Derek Jacobi > Senior Software Engineer at Uber Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/derekjacobi ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Uber Jan 2022 – Present Lead the cross functional effort to rebuild Uber Eats Orders, the app restaurants use to process orders, while acting as web lead, overseeing a team of four UI engineers. Created CLI web teams at Uber use to onboard to event funnel platforms Architect notification system used by Web, android and iOS platforms for Uber Eats Orders Implement Webviews across multiple surfaces Communicate with backend, product, design and our end customers to figure out their pain points, and quickly respond to fix them. Setup user funnel analysis with DS to identify user actions, drop-offs and problem areas in order to increase metrics such as restaurant order completion rate, onboarding time for external engineers, latency issues, and anything that can make our UI more intuitive and easy to use. Passion for quality and user experience by contributing to and using Ubers design system, which standardizes components, themes and accessibility. Define best practices for UI, on call, testing and observability for web teams in my organization, in order to improve the development experience, system performance and quality. Attend product reviews held during the ideation phase, in order to guide external teams who are planning new features. Communicate and lead weekly meetings for non engineering stakeholders in order to provide status updates, discuss future long term roadmaps, and act as a bridge between engineering teams and design, product and other teams. Participate in on call rotations for product and platform teams, acting as a bar raiser for post mortem incident reviews. Write one pagers summering incidents for non engineers. No job is too small, will always take the time to update broken links, answer questions, and provide help to those that need it. Mentor three junior engineers, and receive mentorship from two engineers. ### Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 Leading the engineering team for the federation platform, internal tool responsible for creating, tracking and sending privacy related tasks to employees. Working cross functionally with DS, DE, PM’s, TPM’s, engineers, and other stakeholders to deliver updates and improvements to our product. Leading cross team projects between other related teams in our organization to ensure task assignment accuracy and customization for teams receiving tasks. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Salesforce Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York Engineering lead for the implementation, development and architecture of the Interactive Content (IC) block in Salesforce's Content Builder, I led a team of 3 engineers from the idea stage, to MVP, to current continuous growth in Interactive Content offerings, while communicating cross team with our email and backend teams. After being acquired in October 2018, we began our planning and architecture stages of development. Over the following months, I worked closely with infrastructure, back end, UX/UI, designers, and leadership teams to architect the vision and steps necessary to go from idea to MVP. With a goal set for announcing Interactive Content at Dreamforce in 2019, we began working on our MVP offering, the Interactive Content Form. As the lead for our team, I help sprint planning and backlog grooming meetings, one on ones with each team member, mentored and answered questions proposed by team members, met with my manager to discuss progress, and kept the team working towards our goal. Member of: Security Champions Content Delivery Services Craftsmanship Team Accelerate Program for Future Salesforce Leadership Scrum Master Certified ### Senior Software Engineer @ Rebel (Acquired by Salesforce) Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Charlotte, North Carolina Area Bringing interactivity to email Responsible for the rebuild and redesign of our client analytics and email builder dashboard Ember, Javascript, Node, AWS, Express, MongoDB ### Instructor Assistant - Remote @ General Assembly Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 -Provide remote assistance to students currently taking General Assembly's remote Web Development Immersive course -Grade homework and review student assignments -Teach the best practices for students who are new to programming, in front and back end web development, using languages such as Javascript, Ruby, Angular, Postgresql, MySQL, Rails, React and Node ### Full Stack Web Developer @ Bar & Club Stats, Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Greater New York City Area -Sole developer responsible for the redesign and rebuild of the front and back end of the user reports dashboard from PHP to a single page MEAN stack application with a MySQL and Firebase backend -Integrate Chargify, Stripe, Mailgun and Firebase with our iOS and Android app to process user registration and payment, using PHP scripts, Javascript, Cron Jobs and Zapier. -Wrote new, and optimized existing, SQL queries to reduce report generation times by up to 300% -Managed the companies Android app rebuild through an outside contractor Javascript, AngularJS, NodeJS, Express, MySQL, Firebase, Git, ChartJS, ProtractorJS, PHP, grunt, Heroku, Stripe, Chargify ### Property & Casualty Underwriter @ Sterling Risk Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Woodbury, NY ### Medical Malpractice Underwriter @ Physicians' Reciprocal Insurers Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Roslyn, NY ### Insurance Broker @ Eastern Classic Coverage Insurance Agency Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Bethpage, NY ## Education ### Bachelor's Degree in Information Sciences and Technology Penn State University Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 ### WDI in Web Development Immersive General Assembly Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 ### Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management Farmingdale State College Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/derekjacobi --- Source: https://flows.cv/derekjacobi JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/derekjacobi/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22