Jacob Cherry
Summary
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SeniorJacob Cherry is a systems software engineer with a decade of experience building low-level, performance-sensitive software and tooling, currently contributing at NVIDIA from Cedar Park, Texas. He excels in C and C++, is proficient with C# and Python, and explores functional programming in Haskell, favoring concise, elegant solutions that push close to the hardware. His background spans server development, build systems, and test automation—having implemented integration and unit test suites that reduced client-facing faults and streamlined server feature rollout. At Hericus he helped stabilize and simplify server builds; at NVIDIA he applies that same systems-level rigor to larger, higher-scale problems. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic generalist who prefers minimal, well-placed code over complexity.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (29)
networkmanager9
driver9
linux-kernel7
windows6
browser6
linux6
macos5
newlib5
chromium5
ios4
android4
cpp3
keybindings3
libc3
brave3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Dumonu/Atari2600Emu
Apr 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:43 commits, 43 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 2 months
Dumonu/dotfiles
Oct 2017 - Jul 2021
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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