Summary
Shelby Jacobs is a Senior Software Consultant with six years of hands-on experience building pragmatic software solutions at Counterpoint Consulting after transitioning from archival work. Leveraging a Graduate Degree in Archives and a Software Engineering Immersive from General Assembly, she brings a disciplined approach to information architecture and maintainable code. Based in Reston, VA, Shelby has progressed rapidly through consulting roles, pairing client-facing delivery with deep attention to data organization and documentation. Her background in museums and archives gives her an uncommon strength in metadata, provenance, and long-term data stewardship that informs system design and testing. Colleagues rely on her to translate ambiguous requirements into clean, auditable implementations that scale across projects.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Public/Applied History, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Public/Applied History at Shepherd University
Software Engineering Immersive, Software Engineering Immersive at General Assembly
Graduate Degree, Archives/Archival Administration, Graduate Degree, Archives/Archival Administration at Simmons University