Jack Leightcap
Recurser at Recurse Center
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJack Leightcap is a security-minded embedded and systems engineer with eight years of experience blending research, firmware development, and community facilitation. He’s worked across applied security research at Trail of Bits, embedded firmware at Lutron, and engineering and facilitation roles with the NixOS Foundation, and is currently a Recurser at the Recurse Center. Jack brings practical cross-domain skills—firmware, security research, and open-source collaboration—that help translate low-level constraints into secure, maintainable systems. His background in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Northeastern, plus study at Cambridge’s Pembroke-Kings program, underpins a strong hardware-software perspective. He’s comfortable switching hats between hands-on implementation and community-facing roles, and has a track record of contributing to collaborative, open workflows in niche technical communities. Colleagues would describe him as curious, methodical, and skilled at turning research insights into actionable engineering outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Pembroke-Kings Summer Programme, Pembroke-Kings Summer Programme at University of CambridgeBS Electrical and Computer Engineering, BS Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University
Github Skills (54)
distro10
linux10
package10
nix9
bigint9
security9
python9
deb9
home-manager9
overlays9
binaries9
nixos9
buffer9
nixpkgs9
pypi9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
accessibility-oscilloscope/buildroot
Oct 2021 - Apr 2022
accessibility oscilloscope buildroot config
Contributions:19 reviews, 12 PRs, 40 pushes in 5 months
sqfoscilloscopea11ypyqt5buildroot
jleightcap/jleightcap.github.io
Apr 2019 - Apr 2021
Personal Website
Contributions:3 PRs, 123 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years
react
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