Jacob Bolewski
Software Engineer at RelationalAI
Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolJacob Bolewski is a software engineer with 14 years of experience building high-performance backend systems, currently contributing at RelationalAI from the Salt Lake City area. He has deep roots in the Julia ecosystem—contributing performance optimizations and bug fixes to the core Julia language and helping bridge Julia to Python via pyjulia—alongside hands-on work in build automation for BinaryBuilder/Yggdrasil. His background spans climate modeling research at Caltech, spatial genomics, and development of array database internals at TileDB, where he also served in senior technical leadership roles. Jacob combines systems-level C/C++ and Rust-style engineering with practical release and CI expertise, often improving error handling, performance tests, and cross-language integration. An unusual facet of his career is field work in Antarctic marine instrumentation, reflecting a blend of rigorous research, production engineering, and a tolerance for unconventional environments.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University
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Github Skills (29)
c-language10
python10
utf10
cmake10
capi10
build-automation10
ctypes10
error-handling10
cprogramming-language10
julia10
testing9
apidoc9
performance-optimization9
pbuilder9
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
TileDB-Inc/TileDB
May 2017 - Jul 2019
The Universal Storage Engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 225 commits, 341 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily focused on enhancements to the C API of the TileDB library. They implemented C API functions for accessing the library version, added thorough error handling and improved sanity checks for various internal data structures. Additionally, they worked on migrating tests to the Catch framework.
data-analysisdataframessparse-datadata-sciencescientific-computing
JuliaPy/pyjulia
Nov 2013 - Dec 2014
python interface to julia
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:88 commits, 8 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily focused on building the Python interface for the Julia programming language. Their contributions included initializing the Julia interpreter within Python, implementing core functionalities for evaluating Julia code, and integrating Julia functions and modules. Furthermore, the user worked on improving the codebase by addressing issues related to Python 2/3 compatibility and incorporating various enhancements.
python-interfacepythonjulia
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