Jake Kenneally

About me

I’m a software engineer interested in front end development, all things JS, and improving performance.

Currently, I’m a Principal Front End Engineer at Fundrise.

Previously, I worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Dorsata working on their prenatal electronic health record.

Before that, I was a UI/UX Software engineer at CCRi on Stealth, a web-based map client for performing complex spatial analytics and visualizing geospatial data, Arpeggio, a marketing and sales trend analytics application, and GeoMesa, an open-source, distributed, geospatial database.

Things I’m hacking on

• Re-news-er Live in DC and have a DC Library Card? Then automate your free access to the NYTimes and Washington Post!
• DidUVAWin.com Go Hoos! Find the source code here.
• The Advent of Code using Typescript. Previous years: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018
• The Stranger Things Wall, a Halloween project using programmable LED lights that lit up like the Christmas lights from Stranger Things. I forked the project and added the ability to text the Upside Down using Twilio.

Things I’m no longer hacking on

• Washtenaw COVID Tracker, a daily scraping (up till 9/1/2022) of data from the Washtenaw County Health Department’s COVID cases webpage.
• OX Rush, a webapp to automate Fraternity Rush at UVA for my fraternity, Theta Chi, and fully replace spreadsheets and slide decks. Using a centralized database for potential new member (PNM) contact information, photos, and event sign-ins, PNMs sign-in at each Rush event they attend, and then Brothers can organize and discuss their thoughts on each PNM by using the app.
• Mapping The Virginia Beer Trail, part of CCRi’s “Charlottesville Hackathon.”
• For Fox Sake, a small (and now, sadly, non-functional) web app for a quick, daily comparison on headlines about the president from Fox News, tracking Obama vs Trump on the same number of days into their respective presidencies.

Education

• I graduated from the University of Virginia in 2014 and majored in Computer Science.
• I was the first Senior Resident of Tuttle-Dunnington Residence Hall.
• I served as a Class of 2014 Trustee and on the Young Alumni Council after I graduated.
• I worked as the Marketing Committee chair for the 2013 Lighting of the Lawn.

Personal

• I’m a runner and help with my local run club, NoMa Run Club.
• I see a lot of live music and keep a running list of shows I’m interested in and going to.
• I homebrew beer, and I’m always up for trying a new beer. 🍻