Jacob Macdonald
Senior Software Engineer (AI) at Startup
Canada
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Top SchoolJacob Macdonald is a Senior Software Engineer (AI) with 11 years of experience building production-grade web, mobile, and desktop applications and shipping integrations across complex ecosystems. He excels in Node.js, TypeScript, Python, React, Electron and Capacitor, and has a proven track record of rapidly learning new environments—frequently delivering production-ready features within eight weeks. At Fellow.app he led mobile and desktop builds and numerous integrations (Jira, HubSpot, Salesforce, ClickUp), and at Global Cybersecurity Resource he turned ML research into a 100x faster production pipeline using Kubernetes and task queues. A pragmatic problem solver, Jacob enjoys high-performance algorithm design and root-cause hunting across multiple abstraction layers, and he contributes to notable open-source projects like discord.js and electron/universal. He’s the engineer project managers rely on for high-priority tasks with unknowns, and he’s equally likely to enthuse about an Advent of Code regex solution as he is to ship a robust API integration.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Software Engineering at Carleton UniversityHigh School Diploma, 12, High School Diploma, 12 at Glebe Collegiate Institute
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
discord10
voiceover10
voice10
nodejs10
api-design9
apim9
api9
performance-tuning8
performance-analysis8
googlebot8
bots8
performance-measurement8
performance-monitor8
performance-analytics8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
discordjs/discord.js
Jan 2016 - Feb 2017
A powerful JavaScript library for interacting with the Discord API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 12 PRs, 77 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to improving the functionality of the `discord.js` library. They fixed issues related to voice functionality by modifying volume options, voice state updates, and implemented a fix to compensate for API limitations. Their work included code changes to the audio encoding process, and updates to internal library utilities. Furthermore, the user integrated the libsodium library for security within the project.
apidiscord-jsjavascript-librarydiscorddiscordjs
VoiDGlitch/WarframeData
Apr 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 118 pushes, 14 comments in 1 year 1 month
warframeentriesspoilers
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