Jacob Deal
Senior Software Engineer at DirtLabs
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Deal is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building production software across ad tech, logistics, and consumer platforms from Durham, NC. He has held senior engineering roles at BANYAN, Bilt, and now DirtLabs, bringing practical full-stack expertise and an ability to move between startups and larger engineering organizations. Trained as a physicist at NC State, he applies a quantitative mindset to system design and debugging, favoring pragmatic, data-informed tradeoffs. Colleagues know him for steady delivery on complex codebases and a taste for thoughtful engineering rather than flashy solutions. Outside work he’s a dedicated dog father and amateur photographer, hobbies that reflect his attention to detail and patience for long-term projects.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics at North Carolina State University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (20)
serialization10
fusion10
protocol-buffers9
rpc9
solar9
protobuf9
plasma-physics8
science8
protoc8
astrophysics8
astronomy8
marshalling7
physics7
interchange7
python7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Jac0bDeal/chip-8
Sep 2019 - Apr 2024
A survey of CHIP-8 emulator implementations in various languages for academic purposes.
Contributions:6 PRs, 62 pushes, 9 branches in 4 years 8 months
chip-8implementationsemulatorchiplanguages
Jac0bDeal/pikamon
Jun 2020 - Aug 2021
A Pokemon Discord bot inspired by the late Pokecord.
Contributions:4 reviews, 24 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 2 months
discord-jsdiscordbotlatediscord-bot
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