Gregory Jacobs Email & Phone Number

New York, New York

• Tech Lead for the GS UI Toolkit, an internal Web-based UI library of ~80 components which supports both Angular and React.
• Responsible for leading a massive overhaul of the UI library from its previous incarnation to bring it up to a modern, high quality, well-tested, and flexible UI component library.
• Hands on in almost every aspect while also leading architecture, code reviews, and technical conversations with team members and partners both inside and outside the Core Engineering division.
• Responsible for the build system and CI/CD infrastructure for our monorepo as well (~235 total modules). Migrated our monorepo tool from Rush to Bazel (Google’s build tool) and reduced our total CI time by 77% using a.
• Built out a number of Node.js and CLI utilities to automate our processes, add custom linting, and created other tools to ensure correctness and reduce errors.
• Built out an AST-based Angular/React codemod utility to automate helping users upgrade their apps from previous versions of our library to the latest.

• Lead technical engineer/architect of the Morgan Stanley Wealth Management mobile application. This is a hybrid web application running inside a thin Cordova native layer with custom-built native plugins for iOS and.
• Responsible for building out multiple user-facing systems, the core library of reusable front end services and supporting classes, common UI components, and utility functionality.
• Responsible for designing the server-side APIs that the app uses to be easily consumable and reusable, even for other teams and applications within the firm.
• Assist the team in architecting solutions for implementing individual systems in the app, help with any technical issues, and bring a focus to code quality and building out a robust automated testing suite.

New York, NY

• Built out the Research & Analytics applications for Credit Suisse's investment clients using ExtJS, and then an internal jQuery-based application/UI library used as a lightweight ExtJS alternative.
• Implemented the systems for the searching, displaying, and the automatic delivery of content and market data/analytics, as well as interactive charting and subscription management.

Built the front-end architecture of the system, rewrote and maintained the internal library, built a framework for UI components to allow for the instantiation of dynamically generated, feature rich controls based on metadata, and implemented or re-implemented most other parts of the front end system as well.

• Designed, architected, and implemented a complex, multi-tiered system from the ground up using ColdFusion/MSSQL on the back end, with ExtJS front end applications.
• Managed company contracts, requests, and all other software-related company processes.

Parsippany, NJ

• Was responsible for the software component of all company contracts.
• Developed extensive rich web-based user interface applications using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and AJAX, with ColdFusion Application Server supported by Microsoft SQL Server on the backend.
• Responsibilities also included complete database server administration and development, which encompassed the entire database solution from table design to stored procedure implementation code and maintenance activities.

Bs, Computer Science

Bs, Computer Science