Jake Holland
Senior Software Engineer at Omniscient
Tewkesbury, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Holland is a Senior Software Engineer based in Tewkesbury, UK, with nine years of professional experience and over 13 years of programming practice. He blends deep curiosity about how software works with practical full-stack delivery, progressing from internships and junior roles to leading engineering efforts at COP28 and senior positions at Omniscient. Jake is a pragmatic problem-solver who focuses on precision and robustness—evident in his contributions to the popular pdfkit library where he improved text rendering, dynamic sizing, tables and accessibility. A collaborative mentor, he enjoys helping teammates grow while shipping reliable solutions across backend and frontend systems.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Cheltenham Bournside School and Sixth Form CentreBachelor of Engineering - BE Software Engineering with Year in industry, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Software Engineering with Year in industry at The University of Sheffield
Github Skills (4)
pdf-generation10
javascript10
unit-testing10
text-rendering10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
foliojs/pdfkit
Dec 2024 - Aug 2025
A JavaScript PDF generation library for Node and the browser
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 reviews, 9 PRs, 71 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Jake primarily contributed to the `pdfkit` library, focusing on improving the accuracy and functionality of text rendering. Their commits addressed precision issues in the `LineWrapper`, ensuring correct line breaks and ellipsis handling, fixing rounding issues with large decimal precision checks. The user also introduced support for dynamic sizing using various units and adding page size utilities, including the implementation of text rotation and bounds computation. They enhanced the library by providing enhanced features such as table support which includes cell customization and accessibility support.
javascriptpdf-generation
hollandjake/dogbot
Feb 2019 - Apr 2020
University of Sheffield Computer Science Chatbot
Contributions:3 releases, 19 PRs, 40 pushes in 1 year 2 months
chatbot
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