Jacob Jackson

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Jacob Jackson is a San Francisco–based founder and software engineer with 10 years of experience building high-performance systems and AI-driven developer tools. He created TabNine—a code-completion product he built while still at the University of Waterloo that was acquired by Codota—and later worked as a research scientist at OpenAI on semi-supervised learning. Jacob blends hands-on full-stack engineering (notably improving the TabNine VS Code extension used in the marketplace) with performance-focused work from internships at firms like Hudson River Trading and MemSQL. He now heads Supermaven, applying his mix of research, distributed systems, and developer-experience expertise to ship practical AI products. His background uniquely spans published research, shipped developer tooling, and startup exits, which informs a pragmatic approach to building ML-enabled developer platforms.

10 years of coding experience

Github Skills (12)

autocomplete10

vscode-extensions10

typescript10

typescript310

artificial-intelligence10

typescripts10

typescript210

vscode-extension10

vscode10

typescript-types10

javascript9

javascripts9

Programming languages (7)

TypeScriptCoffeeScriptShellRustJavaScriptPythonKotlin

Github contributions (5)

codota/tabnine-vscode

Sep 2018 - Dec 2019

Visual Studio Code client for Tabnine. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=TabNine.tabnine-vscode

Role in this project:

Full-stack Developer

Contributions:53 commits, 4 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 year 2 months

Contributions summary:Jacob primarily worked on enhancing the functionality of the Tabnine Visual Studio Code extension. They implemented features such as disabling Tabnine, increasing the character limit, and addressing sorting issues to improve the autocompletion experience. The user also updated the client to work with newer Tabnine versions and improved cursor positioning. Additionally, they integrated the latest Tabnine binaries and modified code to handle formatting and filtering suggestions more effectively.

pythonautocompletejavascriptrubyclient-code

codota/tabnine-vim

Sep 2018 - Dec 2019

Vim client for TabNine. https://vimawesome.com/plugin/tabnine-vim

Contributions:20 commits, 16 pushes, 1 tag in 1 year 3 months

pythonvimautocompletejavascriptvim-plugin

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