Software engineer · Full-stack developer
Good software, built kernel by kernel.
Computer Science graduate from Chico State. I design and build complete digital products—from expressive interfaces to dependable APIs, data layers, and deployment—with a focus on clean engineering and a sharp user experience.
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01 / The Cob
I'm Jacob — Mr. Cobb to some, Senior Cobb to the rest. I'm a Computer Science graduate from California State University, Chico, and I build thoughtful software that feels as good to use as it is solid under the hood.
I like owning the whole product path: shaping the interface, designing the API, modeling the data, and solving the strange edge cases that appear where those layers meet. My projects range from browser tools and desktop apps to applied AI systems. Whatever the stack, I keep coming back to the same three principles.
Start with the problem, cut the ceremony, and make the shortest path through the product feel obvious.
Interfaces, APIs, data models, automation, and delivery should work as one coherent system—not a pile of handoffs.
Performance, accessibility, good feedback, and careful visual detail are part of the product, not an afterthought.
02 / Kernels
Every repo is a kernel. Star counts pull live from GitHub — if the API is being stubborn, you're seeing the last known harvest.
A full-stack desktop platform that unifies complex device-backup workflows, analysis, search, timelines, and maps in one polished local interface.
A local RAG + ReAct application with agentic chat, structured search, and interactive KML visualization—designed with a strict answer-verification gate.
A private, natural-language image search app powered by CLIP embeddings. Describe the image; get the image.
An MCP integration that turns a complex CLI engine into clean, sandboxed tools with timelines, summaries, and structured search from any compatible client.
A client-side, read-only SQLite viewer that runs entirely in the browser via sql.js. Your database never leaves the tab.
readonlysql.comOne bash script to generate, verify, and compare filesystem baselines. No dependencies, no ceremony.
03 / The Silo
Five bins, one silo. The tools I reach for.
04 / The Field
Live public activity, planted in rows straight from the GitHub API.
05 / Ear Me Out
Software engineering roles, full-stack projects, open-source collaboration, or an interesting product that needs to be built properly. I answer everything.