Jacob Martin
Linux Kernel Engineer at Canonical
Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Martin is a Linux Kernel Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience in kernel development and embedded systems, currently contributing to Canonical's platform work from Minnesota. He pairs formal computer engineering training from the University of Minnesota with practical research experience building and verifying H.266/VVC encoder components in C/C++ and Xilinx Vitis HLS. Jacob is comfortable navigating low-level system design, hardware-accelerated workflows, and performance-sensitive code paths, with a track record of moving research prototypes toward production-ready implementations. Colleagues know him for translating complex, hardware-adjacent problems into reliable kernel solutions and for bringing a research-informed perspective to pragmatic engineering decisions.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at University of Minnesota
Github Skills (19)
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minecraft9
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bukkit8
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
CweepahCraft/GriefPrevention
Mar 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:33 pushes, 4 branches, 4 comments in 1 year 3 months
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CweepahCraft/SmartGiants
Aug 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:69 commits, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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