Jake Smith

Jake A. Smith builds strong engineering teams, mentors people through promotions and career changes, and still writes code. Founder of CardPath.

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In 2014 I wrote http_build_url, a temporary PHP polyfill for AOL's CMS. Twelve years and nearly 20 million installs later, I'm deprecating it.