# Jake W.

> Full Stack Engineer at Cato Digital

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jakew

Full Stack Software Engineer, functional programming enthusiast, empathic teammate. I love working with passionate people for companies I believe in.

## Work Experience
### Full Stack Engineer @ Cato
Jan 2021 – Present | Remote
Technologies:
Back End: Elixir, GraphQL (Absinthe), PostgreSQL
Front End: JavaScript, React, GraphQL (Apollo), Tachyons (css)

### Full Stack Engineer @ Vidado
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Oakland, California, United States
- Designed and wrote data labeling interface which has been indispensable for transitioning Vidado towards ML-only digitization.
- Co-designed and led implementation of data retention feature that allows customers to delete sensitive data they own from our servers. The feature was fully auditable with ad-hoc report generation. Delivering this feature was imperative  for Vidado to be compliant with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
- Problem solved many customer pain points
- Member of engineering on-call rotation.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Professional Services team, and Customer Success team.
- Member of developer hiring team (I conduct technical phone screens, technical interviews, and design interviews).
- Founder/organizer of engineering department Lightning Talks. Held monthly since summer 2019.
- Enthusiastic volunteer for onboarding new developers on our techstack and processes.

Technologies:
Back End: Python, PostgreSQL, Django, Django Rest Framework, Celery, Redis, AWS, Docker, Docker-Compose
Front End: JavaScript, Typescript, Angular, RxJs, Sass, Pug, Postman

### Software Engineer @ AKQA
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Clients: Apple
- Embedded member of Marcom web dev team. Collaborated with designers, graphics team, and fellow developers to build stunning, complex, high-profile marketing pages on apple.com
- Notable products whose original marketing page I collaborated on include: iPhone X, iPhone Xr, and HomePod

Technologies: JavaScript (ES6), Sass, HTML + HandlebarsJS, and proprietary JS/CSS libraries

### Associate Software Engineer @ AKQA
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Clients: Apple, Air Jordan
- Embedded member of email marketing team at Apple
- Solo coded numerous marketing emails with over 1M opens/views
- Built rapid website prototyping tool for Holiday shopping season
- To accommodate testing and security requirements wrote CLI utility that modifies source code to use anonymized copy and images
 
- Member of 5 person dev team that built Air Jordan website for 30th anniversary release

### Creative Technology Intern @ AKQA
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area
Clients: Anheuser-Busch

### Software Development Intern for Algorithms R&D team @ Wolfram
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
As an intern on the Algorithms R&D team I initially joined the effort to QA and debug the extensive and interactive Mathematica documentation against the soon to be released Mathematica 10. After it released I was tasked with prototyping a POC of interactive map functionality to potentially be included in a future release of the Wolfram Language. In a demo meeting with Stephen Wolfram he said, "This is cool! This is really nice.", after viewing what I'd been working on.

Technologies: Wolfram Language

### Media Coordinator @ National Youth Science Foundation
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Pocahontas County, West Virginia
Counselor and media coordinator at the National Youth Science Camp. 
Responsibilities: managing the photography team, NYSC website daily update, recording lectures, leading overnight trips, running math and science workshops, camp laundry

### Software Development Intern @ PGi
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Colorado Springs
This role involved software development in an agile-programming environment with the research and development team.
Responsibilities: Product testing, bug fixes.
Achievement: Refactored codebase (over 10,000 lines of code) to employ a more performant logging strategy. Wrote crawler that identified and reformatted unperformant logging patterns. Very cool meta-coding.

Technologies: Java, Python


## Education
### Physics and Computer Science
Middlebury College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jzwood
- Portfolio: http://jzwood.neocities.org/

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Last updated: 2026-03-30