Summary
Jake Borst is a Senior Front-end Developer at Valtech, leading front-end teams of 10-20 on healthcare projects and delivering polished HTML, CSS, and JavaScript implementations with a focus on developer experience. He brings over a decade of professional web development across design, UI/UX, and front-end engineering, collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams and stakeholders to ship reliable interfaces. At The Berndt Group (TBG) before Valtech, he defined front-end standards, processes, and hiring practices, helping modernize the practice and keep it cutting-edge. His background blends graphic design, branding, and web development for nonprofits and social impact, with hands-on work on CMS integrations (Sitecore, Wordpress) and front-end tooling. Based in Ithaca, NY, he leverages cross-cultural studies to build accessible, scalable web apps with strong visual polish.
9 years of coding experience