Jacob Rees
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Jacob Rees

Jacob Rees

Frontend Engineer

Shipping React and TypeScript products from Figma to production. 4 years from Vepple (500K+ students, 12.13 pages per session) to Pavers (75+ components, 160+ shops).

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Powered by my forks of react-github-calendar & react-activity-calendar, with fixes for caching and responsive scaling.

Technologies I work with

React
Next.js
Vue.js
TypeScript
React Native
TanStack Query
Zustand
Pinia
tRPC
GraphQL
Node.js
Prisma
PostgreSQL
Firebase
Payload CMS
Sanity CMS
Tailwind CSS
Framer Motion
Storybook
Figma
Mapbox GL JS
Algolia
GrowthBook
GTM
GA4
Vitest
Playwright
Jest
GitHub Actions
Vercel
Shopify Liquid
React
Next.js
Vue.js
TypeScript
React Native
TanStack Query
Zustand
Pinia
tRPC
GraphQL
Node.js
Prisma
PostgreSQL
Firebase
Payload CMS
Sanity CMS
Tailwind CSS
Framer Motion
Storybook
Figma
Mapbox GL JS
Algolia
GrowthBook
GTM
GA4
Vitest
Playwright
Jest
GitHub Actions
Vercel
Shopify Liquid
React
Next.js
Vue.js
TypeScript
React Native
TanStack Query
Zustand
Pinia
tRPC
GraphQL
Node.js
Prisma
PostgreSQL
Firebase
Payload CMS
Sanity CMS
Tailwind CSS
Framer Motion
Storybook
Figma
Mapbox GL JS
Algolia
GrowthBook
GTM
GA4
Vitest
Playwright
Jest
GitHub Actions
Vercel
Shopify Liquid
React
Next.js
Vue.js
TypeScript
React Native
TanStack Query
Zustand
Pinia
tRPC
GraphQL
Node.js
Prisma
PostgreSQL
Firebase
Payload CMS
Sanity CMS
Tailwind CSS
Framer Motion
Storybook
Figma
Mapbox GL JS
Algolia
GrowthBook
GTM
GA4
Vitest
Playwright
Jest
GitHub Actions
Vercel
Shopify Liquid

Featured Projects

Production work for 30+ UK universities, a 160-store retailer, and three shipped side-projects.

CanonCore project

Personal Project

CanonCore

Turns Google Drive into a Netflix-style media library — playlists, watch progress, sharing, and a canonical metadata model across TMDB, Google Books, and MusicBrainz.

Next.jsReact NativeTypeScriptPostgreSQLDrizzle ORMClerkGoogle Drive API
Vepple project

Client Work

Vepple

Virtual campus tour platform serving 30+ UK universities. 500K+ students, 12.13 pages per session, and +19.2% click rate uplift from production A/B tests.

Vue.jsReactNext.jsTypeScriptFirebaseGraphQLMapbox GLGrowthBook
Waveger project

Personal Project

Waveger

Billboard meets Fantasy Football. A First-graded university project rebuilt with React, Supabase, and Deno Edge Functions. Predictions lock Friday, scores auto-calculate Saturday.

React 18TypeScriptSupabasePostgreSQLDeno Edge Functions
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Skills & Technologies

React and TypeScript day-to-day, plus the backend and mobile tools I reach for when a project needs them.

React, every day
React, Next.js, Vue.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, GraphQL, REST APIs
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Front-End Development
Backend, when it needs one
Node.js, tRPC, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Prisma, Firebase, Payload CMS, Sanity CMS
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Full-Stack Development
React Native plus native iOS
React Native, Expo, Swift, SwiftUI
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Mobile Development
The rest of the toolkit
Figma, Storybook, Vitest, Playwright, Jest, GrowthBook, GTM/GA4, GitHub Actions, Vercel
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UX/UI Design

About Me

Frontend Engineer shipping React and TypeScript products in higher education and e-commerce. 4 years at Revolution Viewing ( Vepple) and Pavers, focused on accessibility and A/B-tested conversions.

500K+
Students Reached
30+
Universities
160+
Shops