Jake Bennett

Jake Bennett

Web Developer in Bloomington, IL

Contact

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Side Projects

Ongoing

A bi-weekly podcast where we discuss challenges we face as programmers in our daily work lives.

Ongoing

The Laravel News Podcast covers all of the latest happenings in the Laravel framework and community along with package reviews and tutorials. I help co-host and coordinate topics for the Laravel News Podcast on a semi-weekly basis.

Speaking

2023
Nashville, TN

Simple state machines, allow us to make our state explicit and provide clear instructions on when and how that state should change. By making our state explicit, we can eliminate edge cases, write less code, and confidently test our implementations.

Work Experience

2020 — Now
Normal, IL

Managing the vision and team members of the Wilber IT teams, Software Development teams, and Creative teams.

2014 — 2020
Normal, IL

Developed and maintained company wide systems to standardize and streamline the flow of data between departments.

Responsible for delegating tasks to our team and managing their progress.

AWS, Github, PHP, Laravel

2013 — 2014
Bloomington, IL

Responsive web development and design from wireframes to final product delivery. Was also the development lead for web and hybrid apps.

Zurb Foundation, Bootstrap, PhoneGap, Cordova, Laravel

2012 — 2013

Create solutions to increase efficiency of departments through use of web based applications.

PHP, Codeigniter, jQuery