Jacob Boxerman
Software Engineer, EW at Makerspace @ Columbia
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Boxerman is a Columbia CS undergrad and versatile software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building software, hardware, and maker tools. Currently on the Electromagnetic Warfare team at Anduril, he writes Haskell for software-defined radio systems and has interned on similar projects, blending functional programming with embedded signal work. He contributes to LLM research and has practical IoT, NLP, and computer-vision experience from research roles and a Johns Hopkins APL internship. A longtime makerspace superuser and project lead, Jacob’s portfolio ranges from Emacs packages with 30K+ downloads to 100,000+ ft high-altitude balloon missions and custom PCBs. Comfortable across Rust, Python, and Haskell, he pairs academic curiosity with pragmatic builds—often turning experimental prototypes into widely used tools. Check his projects and writing at jakebox.github.io for a deeper look at his cross-disciplinary work.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
B.A. Candidate Computer Science, B.A. Candidate Computer Science at Columbia UniversityColumbia College, Columbia University
Spanish, English
Github Skills (55)
beacon10
emmet10
melpa10
wifi-hacking10
emacs-lsp10
emacs-lisp10
vim10
emacs10
scanning10
wifi10
esp82669
karabiner9
spacemacs9
spotify9
arduino9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jakebox/jake-emacs
Jul 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:31 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
jakebox/beer_belly
Jun 2024 - Jul 2024
Contributions:6 PRs, 48 pushes, 12 branches in 25 days
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