Jake Rutter

Barnes, London

Hi, I'm Jake Rutter.

I lead DTC engineering at SharkNinja, and I stay ahead by building, tinkering, and learning something new every week.

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The lab

Things I'm building, testing, and learning from.

Agentic Checkout IndexA weekly scan of 358 US and UK retailers, ranked on how ready they are for AI shopping agents.agenticcheckoutindex.com →Southwest LondonTails over ThamesI love tracking planes, especially seeing an A380 fly overhead.tails-over-thames.vercel.app →Trains, buses, boatsMind the TimetableI built this so I can quickly find my way around.mindthetimetable.com →

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Year by year

Selected years

A short cut. The full story has the jobs, the book, and the magazine pieces.

  1. Living abroad for a year, working with agents, and having a blast. SharkNinja, from the Battersea office. Home in Barnes. VP, DTC Engineering & Applied AI since September 2026.

  2. Lewes, Delaware

    Two years in Lewes, Delaware.

  3. Connecticut and Delaware

    VF Corporation, through 2024. Global front end for The North Face, Vans, Timberland, and the wider group.

  4. The book

    Smashing jQuery, for Wiley. About three months, 300+ pages, over 5,000 copies.

  5. Norwalk

    Direct Wines. Designer, then director, then VP, through 2022. Wine-club ecommerce in the US, the UK, and Australia.

  6. Burlington

    Champlain College, web design. The year after, Rutter Interactive starts — a freelance studio that runs until 2014.

  7. Stamford

    Two summers on the water, before any of the web jobs. Sail maintenance, then a season teaching on Colgate 26s.

Wiley · 8 February 2011

Smashing jQuery

After running a blog for several years, I was approached by Wiley to write a book on jQuery. It took about three months and came in over 300 pages. Sold through the major outlets, over 5,000 copies. I sent copies to John Resig and Addy Osmani.

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