Jake Litwicki

Jake is an award-winning Software Development Director with over 10 years of experience working with and managing teams of designers, developers, and artists for brands like Nestle USA, Walmart, Charles Schwab, Ben Bridge Jewelers, and many more. He specializes in application architecture, database design, and web application development, and loves building websites in Laravel, Symfony, Drupal, WordPress, and anything in between. Jake is currently developing projects for Seattle Public Library, Ben Bridge Jewelers.

Drupal 8 Migration
Expertise, Software, Technology Architecture, Web App Development, Website Development

Drupal 8 Migration

Drupal is a free and open-source content-management framework written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License that began in 2001. It has, as of May 2016, evolved into the newly released Drupal 8.1, which, combined with Drupal 6 and 7, powers over 2.2 million websites in the world. Over the last 6+
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Dev Principle #6: Plan Out Your Tech Stack
Software, Technology Architecture

Dev Principle #6: Plan Out Your Tech Stack

Architecting an application and deciding on the key components of the technology stack that go into building it is an important task. If software hadn’t worked out as a career, my backup was construction. There are many similarities – from crafting the blueprints to laying the foundation, from choosing your materials to building the structure
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Dev Principle #3: Version Your Database
AI/Machine Learning, Expertise, Mobile App Development, Software, Technology Architecture, Web App Development, Website Development, XR Development

Dev Principle #3: Version Your Database

There are numerous benefits of having a standardized local development environment for your entire team to work on and share. This arrangement is essential for reducing bugs and interchanging team members amongst projects – a topic discussed at length in Vagrant Up Can Make Development Easier. One of the major milestones to achieve in your
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How Vagrant Up Can Make Development Easier
Software

How Vagrant Up Can Make Development Easier

Have you ever managed a remote team and needed to get developers or designers set up so they could start contributing to a project? How many hours (or days!) do you wish you could get back? Earlier this year Hashicorp released a product that changed the face of team-based development. Vagrant was originally a simple
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