Jake Van Vorhis Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

° From browser to database, I write, design, and help lead our team in creating performant, secure, observable, scalable, properly tested, and innovative software.° I collaborate with various stakeholders and executives to turn business objectives into successful engineering outcomes.° I derisk project goals and define timelines by proving out system designs and new feature implementations before breaking them down into meaningful scopes of work.° I scale impact and velocity by propagating knowledge/documentation throughout the Engineering organization to break down silos, spend attention on DX to reduce friction, and encourage best practices.° I collaborate with our Architects to translate high-level product/engineering needs into sequenced and ownable work.

Washington, Dc, Us

° Open Source key contributor to OpenTDF platform for data-centric security: https://github.com/opentdf/platform° Open Source key contributor 'otdfctl' (administration UX of the platform): https://github.com/opentdf/otdfctl° Contributor to various proprietary and premium product offerings built on top of the open platform° Technologies: Go, PostgreSQL, gRPC, Buf, Docker, Github Actions, Cobra, JavaScript/TypeScript, etc

Washington, Dc, Us

° Key member of a cross-team effort to upgrade our authentication protocol to OpenID Connect (OIDC) impacting and leading several company-wide architecture decisions resulting in a clean, scalable, secure, easy-to-adopt implemented system design supporting several disparate products° Continuously stewarded our feature flagging efforts as usage expands throughout our Engineering organization° Leader in bringing enhanced observability tooling to our front-end applications in a secure, scalable, cost-effective, and powerful manner resulting in improved experiences for Customer Support, Product, Engineering, and UX teams (including one key product several million sessions per month)° Engaged and active contributor to Architecture, Security, Design System, and various Engineering Guild discussions° Built and maintained multiple reusable GitHub Actions for usage across code base CI/CD pipelines° Key contributor to the effort to migrate various internal JavaScript and TypeScript libraries from standalone repo's to a monorepo with a shared CI pipeline with the eventual goal of saving hundreds of engineering hours per year spent upgrading dependencies and resolving vulnerabilities° Virtru hackathon People's Choice winning team member with a dynamic, generative AI-powered, schema-driven, product proof of concept

Washington, Dc, Us

° Architected a new search microservice in Go, designing and implementing publicly exposed API with concurrency, integration with existing CI/CD and k8s infrastructure, production readiness, and ongoing performance monitoring° Winner of a quarterly engineering award to recognize outstanding technical contributions° Led an effort to evaluate paid and open source accessibility testing tools, then implemented e2e accessibility tests within the CI/CD pipeline for two products° Utilized React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, Go, and various YAML/config and script languages to support new feature development, bug fixes, and support of legacy codebase across multiple applications° Spearheaded a feature-flagging SaaS-vendor evaluation, then built the internal company-wide process documentation and governance including the use of OpenFeature° Hosted a feature flags knowledge-share across engineering/product/design orgs about best & worst practices of feature flags to minimize tech debt and utilize flags effectively

° Built a performant and optimization-focused caching dev tool for apps using GraphQL with a server running Oak/Deno with caching at the resolver-level to allow modularity and abstract away complexity° Worked with Deno as an exciting alternative to Node with stronger security, native TypeScript, top-level await and ability to meaningfully contribute to a growing ecosystem without existing robust support° Utilized TypeScript to develop the tool with strong, static typing for a more maintainable, scalable code base and useful IntelliSense to assist both our tool’s users during implementation and future contributors during development° Architected DenoStore for use with Oak to leverage its middleware design pattern and popularity for maximum utility° Incorporated Redis for the caching functionality of the DenoStore tool, taking advantage of its efficient in-memory storage resulting in incredibly performant API/server calls, reduction in total calls to external API’s from server due to cache, and excellent speed optimization along with optional cache expiration functionality° Designed caching tool for and with GraphQL because of its strong query schema for clarity of data shape and type between client and server, and solution to over- and under-fetching data all at a single route endpoint° Developed tool’s demo website in React for its client-side rendering React-Router, reusable components, state hooks° Strongly typed app state, component props, and functionality of demo site components with TypeScript in React for improved readability and maintainability for future contributors° Containerized demonstration web app with Docker to deploy Deno server and DenoStore cache ° Configured Webpack during buildout of DenoStore demo web app for hot module reloading on update ° Utilized D3.js library to build query time reduction demonstration visual to auto-scale and update with user interaction ° Developed DenoStore under the open source tech accelerator OSLabs

° Evaluated ecommerce platforms and SaaS suite for most scalable and performant stack, contributed to design and A/B testing of website UI and conversion strategy, and hired and interfaced with developers for ecommerce store site° Configured API connections between platform and various apps, technologies, and tools ° Led operations from Kickstarter launch of DTC brand to 4 years of growth and $3M+ total revenue