Kenton Jacobsen

We embedded with NBC to modernize and overhaul their election mapping project, called the Hitboard, and by the night of the general election it was running so smoothly that we built and released a feature at the request of the talent.

Built operating patterns for improving software quality while teams adopt AI-assisted development.

When I joined Code and Theory as Head of Engineering, each project was using different technologies, libraries, and standards, but I developed a “reference architecture” that encouraged the use of a set of preferred technologies.Read More

Grew the business to a peak of $6M in annual revenue.

Owned the practical overlap between software, operations, inventory, customer experience, and margin.

Not many bugs have been written up in the trades, but this one was.Read More

At Vogue, we acquired Style.com and nearly a million images with an incredibly complex data model just as GraphQL was open-sourced--which was quite fortunate, as this was exactly the type of data that GraphQL performs best with.Read More

Vogue needed an image and video transformation service quickly when we decided a just-booked photo shoot was the right opportunity to create a new editorial format—slideshows composed of short video clips.Read More

At Vogue, the annual Met Gala was our superbowl as our brand "owned" that event and we needed to ensure our red carpet coverage was flawless and as fast as The Times and others.Read More

When I joined Vogue, we were nine days out from an immovable launch with a WordPress website that wasn't ready, but I hit the ground running and we launched on time.Read More

“We rolled our own auth layer” is the last thing you want to hear—especially from certain people.Read More

It turned out that php_flag engine off was the final piece of our "swiss cheese" security model that kept us from a complete compromise.Read More

In 2013, mobile traffic was surging but still the minority in traffic and monetization, I decided to make the site responsive in a weekend and, along the way, learned one of my most important technical management lessons.Read More