Jacob Ebey

Software Engineer
Seattle, WA
jacob.ebey@live.com

Summary

Self motivated engineer with 8+ years of experienced focused on developer experience and improving the lives of those around me.

Expertise

• Javascript
• TypeScript
• Webpack Plugins
• Module Federation
• Large codebases
• Server Side Rendering
• Code Splitting
• Chunk Preloading
• React / Next.js
• GraphQL
• Vercel
• HTML / CSS / SASS
• Golang
• C# / .NET Core
• Linux / Windows

Experience

• Lululemon — Micro Web App Platform — Software Engineer

  Establishing development patterns at the organization level to enable product teams to scale without growing pains.

  • Realizing Module Federation patterns in Next.js to reduce full page reloads between micro-frontends.
  • Introducing an HOC pattern to enable re-use of core business logic such as authentication and "My Bag".
  • Maintaining and improving our internal CI/CD Next.js boilerplate.

• Lululemon — Personalization & Enablement — Software Engineer

  Contributing to an in-house AB testing and delivery framework that utilizes Adobe Target and React lifecycles to deliver a seamless experience for guests.

  • Released the first SSR chunk preloading system for Module Federated chunks to production.
  • Moved global page scripts out of Adobe to a module federation based system to enabled autonomy of ABT and SRE teams.
  • Enabling inline personalization and soft profile storage to product streams.

• Lululemon — Content & Education — Software Engineer

  Building out new experiences such as elevated CDP experiences and making the site generally more accessible for guests.

  • Designed the Module Federeated, Apollo Federation GraphQL Server architecture used in production.
  • Built an elevated CDP experience highlighting expanded inclusivity in legging sizes that was highlighted in Forbes Magazine
  • Expanded information avaliable in the PDP "Why we made this" section.
  • General accessibility improvements throughout the home, story, CDP, and PDP pages.

• Alaska Airlines — Alaska Pay — Software Engineer

  Contributing to the new payment processing system that spans Inflight and Airports while modernizing an existing legacy system that handles automated phone routing.

  • Working within both ASP .Net Framework and ASP .Net Core projects.
  • Building an Electron application to assist in re-processing or writting off transactions.
  • Utilizing a GraphQL endpoint to minimize data transfer between the back-end and Electron application.

• Microsoft — AI & Knowledge — Software Engineer

  Building a Data Catalog to allow exploration of data-sets owned by Microsoft allowing data-scientists to spend less time locating and prepping data, and more time gaining insights and building models.

  • Back-end is written in Node.JS (Typescript) utilizing GraphQL and Neo4j.
  • UX leverages React (hooks) and deferred rendering to deliver the best user experience possible
  • Easily add new or locate existing data-sets through a file-system like UX with advanced search capabilities.

• Microsoft — AI & Knowledge — Software Engineer

  Designed a graph visualization of the Microsoft Customer Master to allow exploration and deeper data insights.

  • Aggregated data from multiple data-sources into a coherent data-model with GraphQL.
  • Back-end was built using ASP.Net Core and uses Azure Active Directory for s2s and user authentication.
  • UX leverages React and the Apollo Client to maintain a clean application state in a data heavy application.

• Microsoft — Rewards — Software Engineer

  Built and maintained a tool that allows teams such as marketing to configure everything from Quizzes to Rewards with the option to implement custom logic without needing to understand software.

  • The UX leverages React/Redux creating reusable UX components and maintaining a clean application state in a data heavy application.
  • The WebAPI is built using ASP.Net Core and uses Azure Active Directory for s2s and user authentication.

• Microsoft — Sales — Software Engineer

  Built and maintained OneView, a tool to reduce prep time for sales calls by providing a holistic view of the business or entity by aggregating data from throughout the many orgs, as well as providing a layer of machine learning to increase sale chance.

  • Xamarin Forms was chosen for the UX which lead to the need for the creation of many custom controls and platform specific renderers for iOS Android and UWP.
  • Prism was chosen to easily share business logic between platforms.
  • Created a thin abstraction around a few testing frameworks as no single one existed for all three platforms at the time allowing for consolidated UI tests.

• OMAX Corporation — Software R&D — Software Engineer

  As a general-purpose engineer, I worked on projects from 3D CAM applications, to mobile applications, to embedded machine control.

  • Developed features for the Intelli-MAX product suite such as the chamfer and spiral lead tools.
  • Played a major role in building out the core architecure of OMAX Intelli-CAM, the first 3D CAM application for Waterjet applications.
  • Build from the ground up an OpenGL renderer to support linux and mobile systems.
  • Developed a proof of concept monitoring application for Android and iOS.
  • Did the initial research into EtherCAT for what would become the next gen machine control scheme

References

• Jacob is still the best at module federation outside of the original three authors. That makes him the 4th most knowledgeable (if not higher). For an “outsider” that’s staggering.

• Jacob is a super capable full stack developer with broad knowledge and a ton of ingenuity. He has great design instincts; you can throw really hard problems at him and be confident in a high quality, thoughtful design and solution. Very quick learner and an excellent thinker. Produces elegant high quality code that simplifies future maintenance; actively refactors to improve.