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Jacob R. Alford

2214 Yearling Drive, Fort Collins CO 80525-4467

(505) 290-3096

Seeking a senior full-stack engineering role with an emphasis in frontend or backend development. Dedicated to the craft of principled engineering. Experienced in CI/CD, containerization, package authorship, SSR, REST, and web technology. Interested in SOLID principles, Onion, Nest architecture, functional programming, and NixOS. Student of Rust and a master of TypeScript.

  • Languages, Libraries, and Runtimes:TypeScript, NodeJS, NestJS, NextJS, React, Redux, Jest, Rust, Dioxus, Haskell, Elm, PureScript, HTML 5, CSS, LaTeX
  • Tools and Technology:git, zsh, Nix, home-manager, Nix Flakes, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, NeoVim, VSCode, GitHub Copilot, Ollama
  • Cloud and DatabasesAWS – Cognito, IAM, Lambda, ECR, EKS, API Gateway, DynamoDB; PostgreSQL, MySQL, GraphQL
  • InfoSec, IT, and related standards:OAuth 2.0, CSRF, XSS, RBAC, VLANs, Subnet Isolation and Firewalls, DNS, IPv6, https, SSH
  • Operating SystemsmacOS, NixOS, Pop!_OS, Windows

Experience

Shutterfly (Spoonflower)

Durham, NC (Remote)

Senior Software Engineer 2

July 2022 – Present

Architect for the User team. Actively replatforming account and login experiences, and implementing greenfield quality-of-life features. Former core team member for the artist team replatforming legacy marketplace upload with an emphasis on quality of experience and an upgraded feature set.

  • Engineered a high-performance hybrid SSR server serving over 600,000 requests daily; deeply introspected with Open Telemetry (OTel); with a client runtime integrated with idiomatic fp-ts and rxjs for resource management and state.
  • Retrofitted legacy codebases with a new W9 and W8 tax document vendor, saving thousands of personnel hours in manual document collation.
  • Architected an OAuth 2.0 backwards compatible authentication system powered by Cognito, paving the way for future replatforming and increased security throughout the site.

SimSpace

Boston, MA (Remote)

Software Engineer 2

March 2021 – July 2022

A robust InfoSec personnel SaaS training platform funded by the Department of Defense and the top 5 big banks. Core contributor to Team Dream, responsible for performance improvements and quota management systems.

  • Engineered VM interface load testing suites to benchmark critical virtual environment performance.
  • Implemented sophisticated UI for managing an organization's VM resource availability, allocation, and access.

Electronic Caregiver

Las Cruces, NM

Software Engineer, Team Lead

November 2019 – March 2021

Cutting-edge healthcare tech company for chronic care and health monitoring.

  • Corrected complex temporal WebGL rendering bugs with Addison, a virtual care assistant.
  • Engineered a sophisticated patient reminders UI for care providers.
  • Tech lead for a pandemic symptom-checker app with Bluetooth peripheral integration.

Indica Labs

Albuquerque, NM

Software Developer

May 2019 – August 2019

A SaaS company providing high performance pathologist tools for analyzing high resolution tissue samples.

  • Implemented an arbitrarily deep directory and file picker.
  • Adopted TensorflowJS for projecting multi-band cell stains into visual spectra in real-time.

Education

New Mexico State University (Las Cruces, NM), BS Applied Mathematics

2019–2022

New Mexico Tech (Socorro, NM), Applied and Pure Mathematics

2017–2019

Open Source

A WPA3 URI generator for making WPA3 based wifi QR codes.
Chain-rec instances and utilities for fp-ts.
Bifoldable and Bitraversable instances for fp-ts.
fp-tx is a continuation of fp-ts, a functional programming library for TypeScript.
Package TypeScript libraries for maximum compatibility.
A lightweight markdown generator for @microsoft/api-extractor.