# Jacob Swartz

> Senior Software Engineer at EdCast

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jacobswartz

I'm an eager and experienced full stack developer backed by strong intuition for detail and visual aesthetics. My understanding of both the software development and project management lifecycle enables me to make informed decisions for delivering top-quality solutions.

I enjoy writing/reading/breaking/testing/profiling/optimizing/deploying code, provisioning Linux servers and configuring systems for performance, security and scalability, and a list of other things.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ EdCast
Jan 2018 – Present | Mountain View, California
EdCast is an award-winning, AI-powered Knowledge Cloud for Unified Discovery, Personalized Learning. The company has customers including Fortune 500 companies and multinational organizations.

EdCast uses artificial intelligence and its curation engine to bring together organizations'​ internal learning content, expert insights along with millions of external resources into an easy-to-use, personalized learning experience and knowledge platform.

Since its founding at Stanford University, EdCast has been recognized by industry analysts as a new type of digital learning platform that is learner-centric and learner-driven.  Powered by content pulled from many internal and external sources -- and enhanced by collaborative knowledge-sharing from within the organization -- EdCast is the application layer that facilitates personalized learning with proprietary AI and machine learning. Mobile first and embedded with social and collaboration capabilities, EdCast delivers both a superior learning experience for employees and enhanced levels of performance for organizations. 

The EdCast executive team has a track record of building large-scale transformational technology solutions, and the company's entire team is passionate about the global impact of mobile and online knowledge-sharing. EdCast is based in Mountain View, CA, the heart of Silicon Valley, with offices worldwide.

### Developer Consultant @ Freelance
Jan 2012 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
• Develop and maintain websites and custom features for clients
• Utilize APIs to import product data from multiple vendors
• Generate tailored reports from cart platforms for ecommerce clients
• Create email campaigns using MailChimp and Campaign Monitor
• Install and maintain FTP, mail, and web servers

### Senior Frontend Software Engineer @ Walmart eCommerce
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Sunnyvale, California
Worked alongside top talent on the Customer Experience team delivering a best-in-class ecommerce experience at global scale – iterating at startup pace – using technologies such as Node, Electrode, React, Redux, and Stylus.

• Played key role implementing Walmart.com site redesign (Project New York), on an agile team responsible for all pages relating to Customer Accounts (node/es6/electrode/react/redux)
• Implemented code coverage analysis using Istanbul, automation and unit testing with
karma/chai/mocha/enzyme + Nightwatch.js + Magellan/Saucelabs
• Authored rigid and sensible acceptance criteria used for pull request/code reviews
• Lead sprint retrospectives/post-mortems, standups, helped onboarding new hires and
mentored junior developers

### Creative Technologist @ Bluestone Creative
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Cincinnati, Ohio
• Spearheaded hardware upgrades for in-house web, storage, and FTP servers
• Created client website boilerplates using various technologies
• Set up tools for project tracking, task management, and team collaboration

### Software Engineer @ Ask.com
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Oakland, California
• Front and backend development on an agile development team responsible for over 20 domain-specific search engine results pages
• Repaired revenue-generating sites penalized by Google’s search algorithm “Panda”
• Made Questions & Answers site mobile-friendly by implementing a responsive grid
• Assisted designers and creative directors in authoring a unified website style guide

### Software Developer @ Main Street Labs, Inc.
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco, California
• Developed a web scraping tool to fetch data used for comparing and unifying business info across online presences
• Created company site html5, css/sass, and javascript, deployed on AWS

### Web Developer @ FontShop International, Inc.
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco, California
• Created a responsive ecommerce experience using HTML5, CSS3 + Sass, and JavaScript
• Developed font rendering tool for sampling over 100,000 typefaces using php-gd
• Implemented sitewide templating and internationalization supporting 4 languages
• Created a shopping cart checkout system with Cybersource/Ogone/PayPal supporting VAT
• Optimized pages resulting in decreased load time and increased SEO ranking
• Replaced image and Flash hack typography solutions with web fonts using Typekit
• Maintained self-hosted WordPress blog extended with custom features
• Helped organize and run TYPO San Francisco–one of Europe’s most successful design conferences–for its U.S. premiere at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, California

### Software Developer @ Skates on Haight
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 | San Francisco, California
• Deployed and maintained server and application for an ecommerce product
• Managed Volusion installations, wrote custom reports and extensions

### Web Developer @ Fish Flirt Marketing
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 | Dayton, Ohio
• Developed ecommerce sites with the LAMP stack, W3C-compliant HTML, CSS, and JS
• Installed, configured, and managed SVN, web, and mail servers


## Education
### Computer Information Systems
Sinclair Community College
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jacobswartz
- Website: https://www.swartz.id

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Last updated: 2026-03-22