Pat Jacobs

About Pat Jacobs

I\'m a senior software engineer with over 9 years experience building high-traffic, large-scale web applications that are polished, tested, and meet the goals of the business. I have deep understanding with modern languages and libraries such as React, Node, Typescript, Java, and NextJS. I take pride in guiding teams to use code that is optimized, testable, documented, and reusable. When it comes to leadership, I have proven abilities to manage, motivate, and educate teams of 5+ talented professionals and track success. I thrive on solving highly challenging problems and have collaborated with designers and product managers to create polished products. Recently, I led a team of front-end engineers at Weedmaps to build features for post-conversion and e-commerce flows for weedmaps.com and our native apps. I architected and spear-headed a major effort to rebuild our checkout and post-order experience for our users while collaborating with designers, product managers, and stakeholders. In the end, we released a new checkout and post-order experience while increasing orders being placed by 15%, decreasing canceled orders by 25%, and decreasing customer support tickets. At Blizzard as a senior full-stack engineer on the Identity Team, I lead a major effort to audit and redesign our applications to meet WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards. These applications reach over 27 million active users and used in over 100+ games and products that are critical to to the business. I built a new reusable UI template using Javascript, SCSS, and Vue.js as well as improved error, form, and authentication handling on our Java and Spring Framework backend. We met deadlines, reduced tech debt, and released to successfully meet all WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards.Overall, I am a creative problem-solver, mature, take ownership, infinitely curious, and strive to be a force-multiplier for my team. Check out my portfolio at https://patjacobs.com or shoot me an email at m••••••••@gmail.com.

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer Ii

   Blizzard Entertainment

   Jun 2024 — Present · Irvine, CA, US

Education

• Thinkful

  Front-end Web Development

  2015 — 2016

• Missouri State University

  Bachelor’s Degree, Music Education

  2006 — 2008

• Missouri State University

  Bachelor’s Degree, Music Performance

  2001 — 2006