Jacob Jackson
Software Engineer Intern at Cyberspatial
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Jackson is a software engineer and technical writer with six years of hands-on experience building fast, pragmatic tooling and producing widely read developer content. Currently a Software Engineer Intern at Cyberspatial, he focuses on optimizing high-throughput data ingestion and storage systems with custom benchmarking and performance work. He’s the lead contributor to microdiff, a high-performance, zero-dependency deep comparison library with impressive adoption and robust TypeScript support, where he improved benchmarks, fixed tricky cyclical-reference bugs, and expanded type support. His writing has reached hundreds of thousands of readers via his blog Byte of Dev and contract work for platforms like Envato and the Deno blog, bridging clear documentation with practical code. Comfortable across the full stack, Jacob combines low-level performance tuning with developer-first documentation, making complex systems accessible and reliable. Based in the DC–Baltimore area, he’s open to roles that blend technical writing and development.
6 years of coding experience
The Potomac School
Github Skills (17)
algorithm10
algorithms10
javascript10
benchmark10
typescript10
benchmarking10
performance-optimization10
typescript-types10
comparer10
typescripts10
typed-array9
multidimensional-arrays9
testing9
dynamic-array9
arrayobject9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
AsyncBanana/microdiff
Oct 2021 - Jul 2022
A fast, zero dependency object and array comparison library. Significantly faster than most other deep comparison libraries and has full TypeScript support.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 3 reviews, 44 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily focused on improving the performance and functionality of the `microdiff` library. They implemented new benchmark tests to compare the library's speed against others. Furthermore, they fixed bugs related to date and object handling, and cyclical references. The user also added support for new class types and enhanced the code with performance optimizations and array key handling.
arraycomparison-libraryzerocomparisonjavascript
AsyncBanana/Serenity-Editor
Jul 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:37 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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