Jacob Paris is a Senior Community Engineer at Vercel with 10 years of experience consulting on and building React-based business- and developer-facing products. He’s an active community educator and speaker—an Egghead.io instructor and Epic Web Conf 2024 speaker—who contributes to open-source projects like trigger.dev (an open-source background jobs and AI infra platform) and epic-stack, often fixing tricky Prisma/Vite integration issues and improving full-stack tooling. He runs jacobparis.com, created Sly (a CLI icon distribution tool), and does focused consulting engagements that emphasize practical outcomes, including a refactor that cut a client’s hosting bill by $500/month. His career spans senior engineering work on mortgage and legal tools to hands-on roles as a journeyman welder and early Flash game developer, a blend that yields pragmatic, user-centered solutions. Based in Old Toronto, he combines developer advocacy with full-stack craftsmanship to help teams ship reliable systems.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Journeyman Welding Technology/Welder, Journeyman Welding Technology/Welder at NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology)
This is a Full Stack app starter with the foundational things setup and configured for you to hit the ground running on your next EPIC idea.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:8 reviews, 12 PRs, 21 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Jacob contributed to various aspects of the "epic-stack" project, including fixing typos, replacing deprecated dependencies, and explaining cookie expiration in the login route. They also added a new transform function for a Sly project, adjusted SVG sprite generation, and addressed an issue related to removing the .git directory on initialization. Furthermore, the user refactored border color configurations and managed the package.json file to store the latest commit hash.
Trigger.dev – open source background jobs and AI infrastructure
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:14 PRs, 15 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily focused on fixing issues related to Prisma and Vite's ability to resolve real values in the `trigger.dev` repository. Their contributions involved modifying code across multiple files within the `webapp` application, including database types, run filters, task run status components, and endpoint configurations. These changes also included refactoring code for clarity and ensuring the code functions correctly.
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