Jacob Yanicak
Software Development Engineer III at Workday
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJacob Yanicak is a Software Development Engineer III with nine years of experience building authentication and verifiable-credential systems at Workday, backed by an AWS Developer certification. He brings deep practical knowledge of SAML, OIDC, and authentication security, honed alongside prior blockchain and API work at Merck's digital supply chain and innovation teams. Jacob's background blends production-grade backend engineering in Node.js and MongoDB with data-science training (MS in Data Science), enabling him to bridge secure identity systems and data-driven features. Early career roles in automation and UAT delivered measurable process improvements—one automation cut weekly intake time by 98%—showing a knack for pragmatic tooling and operational rigor. Based in San Francisco, he pairs enterprise security expertise with hands-on implementation experience across startups and large organizations.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Data Science, Master of Science - MS Data Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
1,571reputation
92kreached
86answers
5questions
excel
top-5%
vba
top-5%
Github Skills (51)
cron9
vba9
excel9
outlook8
trust8
command-line-tool8
multiserver8
patch8
calendars7
nodejs7
verifiable-credentials7
driver7
bitcoin7
decentralized-identifiers7
microsoft-graph-api7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
yanicakj/University_Heights_Connect
Feb 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
sammyfaraj/HackNJIT2019
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
InstaCook uses custom ML model with React web/mobile app to take your unused ingredients and generate new recipes. Image recognition to extract food items from a simple picture of your fridge.
Contributions:14 commits, 10 pushes in 1 month
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.