Jake Engel Email & Phone Number

San Jose, Ca, Us

Working on PayPal Checkout

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

• SME in Clearcover’s proprietary PAS, backed by TypeScript and Kotlin microservices with React UI.• Participated in Summer 2022 internship program; solely responsible for mentorship of team’s intern through 1:1 pairing sessions, guiding design and MVP implementation of high-visibility feature.• Led sprint “tech planning” sessions, discussing subtasks and implementation details with dev team.• Devised long-term strategy for migrating mission-critical TypeScript microservice to modern Spring Boot Kotlin, resulting in seamless and incremental cutovers.• Collaborated with Compliance to architect a framework for bulk remediation of faulty policy data via API endpoints, saving thousands of hours of man-hours otherwise spent rectifying data discrepancies.• Designed event-driven data ingestion architecture, consuming Kafka events representing a policy’s state from various internal microservices for further manipulation and display via internal UI.• Delivered countless QoL enhancements to engineering org, including logging and debugging features, deployment tracking, CI/CD optimization, query tuning and dependency management automation.• Consulted with PSE to unblock CX operations, provide guidance and documentation for incident remediation and to resolve production outages.

Chicago, Il, Us

Building API services in TypeScript and Kotlin to serve Clearcover’s Policy Administration System.

Us

• Responsible for architecture and implementation of modern eCommerce platform, backed by highly-performant PHP/Laravel APIs with customer-friendly and server-rendered Vue.js UI.• Built in-house eCommerce search engine on ElasticSearch, supporting typeahead suggestions and user-tailored recommendations; resulting in increased search bar conversion rate• Migrated Lumen API backing field sales iOS app to DI-driven Laravel, reducing maintenance overhead• Spearheaded and developed internal admin UI backed by Vue.js, PHP/Laravel and Node.js, centralizing various business processes; authenticating internal users via LDAP.• Integrated with services such as Payroc, Salesforce and Azure for process automation.• Optimized business and development processes with new internal tooling, deployment automation via application containerization and enhanced logging and performance monitoring.

• Responsible for building and maintaining the public website in PHP/Laravel, with a custom CMS and e-Commerce system to fit business requirements.

• Maintained two NHL-sized sheets of ice by performing ice cuts up to the college level and nightly maintenance (edging and chipping) of ice • Operated and performed basic maintenance of propane, CNG and electric Zamboni machines• Operated other necessary equipment including forklifts and scissor lifts • Performed other tasks such as housekeeping, security, snow removal, landscaping, painting, basic plumbing and carpentry work• Occasionally assisted with customer service tasks such as operating the cash register or distributing rental skates