Jack Horton
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Woodinville, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJack Horton is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building language-aware systems, distributed build/test infrastructure, and thoughtful user interfaces from his base in Woodinville, WA. At Microsoft he has moved from contributing to ChakraCore and Node-ChakraCore—implementing ICU-backed internationalization and runtime shims—to designing distributed build and test systems that accelerate Chromium-based Edge development. He combines deep interests in compilers, language theory, API design, and typography with hands-on backend work, making him equally comfortable implementing low-level runtime behaviors and scaling developer tooling. His open-source contributions to ChakraCore demonstrate expertise in compatibility layers and Unicode/internationalization subtleties that often hide behind everyday APIs. Colleagues describe him as a polymathic engineer who bridges language-runtime internals and pragmatic engineering processes to ship features faster and more reliably.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Purdue UniversityThe Hun School of Princeton
Github Skills (14)
napi10
internationalization10
i18next10
nodejs10
localization10
c-language10
chakracore10
javascript10
cprogramming-language10
chakra10
unicode10
icu10
v89
testing8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
chakra-core/ChakraCore
Sep 2017 - Sep 2018
ChakraCore is an open source Javascript engine with a C API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:342 commits, 93 PRs, 852 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Jack primarily worked on the ChakraCore Javascript engine, contributing to the implementation and enhancement of internationalization features, specifically within the ICU (International Components for Unicode) context. The user's work included the implementation of the `getDefaultLocale` function, and the migration of toLocaleString/toUpperCase/toLowerCase functionality, which involved both native and Javascript implementation and configuration. The contributions also involved the integration of the Unicode library to handle formatting of timezones.
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nodejs/node-chakracore
Sep 2017 - Sep 2018
Node.js on ChakraCore :sparkles::turtle::rocket::sparkles:
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 209 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Jack primarily contributed to the Node.js on ChakraCore repository by fixing tests and shimming APIs for the ChakraCore JavaScript runtime. They addressed issues related to test failures, implemented stubs for missing APIs, and updated shim functionalities to align with new V8 and N-API API versions. The contributions focused on adapting the Node.js codebase to function correctly on ChakraCore and ensuring compatibility between the two runtimes.
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