About

Thanks for stopping by. Read below to learn more about myself and my background.

Jacob Banghart enjoying a magic convention

Background

I am a Software Engineer II at Disney Streaming with 5+ years of professional experience building full-stack applications, APIs, and production systems. Today I work on the subscription commerce platform that powers billing, offer presentation, and plan management across Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ on web, mobile, and TV devices.

My work spans API design, feature delivery, developer tooling, and production reliability. I have led end-to-end delivery for subscription retention offers across multiple regional launches, owned infrastructure migrations with Terraform and Datadog, and supported launch readiness through on-call, debugging, and same-day hotfixes. I also enjoy cross-team technical alignment, code review, and helping teams adopt practical AI-assisted development workflows.

Before Disney, I worked at CNH building business APIs, event-driven systems, and observability tooling across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and SQL Server. Earlier in my career, I built full-stack financial software at LMS Project and interactive real-time frontends for autonomous systems. I completed a Master's degree in Computer and Information Systems with a specialization in Data Management at Dakota State University.

Education

Masters of Computer Information Systems - Dakota State University (3.55 GPA)

Skills

  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • React *
  • REST APIs
  • GraphQL
  • Node.js
  • NestJS
  • Next.js
  • SQL Server
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Terraform
  • Astro *
  • Express
  • CI/CD *
  • Kubernetes *
  • Docker *
  • Datadog
  • OpenTelemetry

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