Jacob Palecki
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Palecki is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building performant system-level software at Microsoft, where he progressed from Software Engineer to Senior Engineer. He specializes in low-level and kernel-adjacent work, evidenced by contributions to the RawAccel project implementing advanced mouse acceleration modes and refining the underlying mathematics. Based in the Greater Seattle Area and trained in computer engineering at UIUC, he blends rigorous engineering fundamentals with production-grade shipping at scale. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who moves between core systems and user-facing tooling to deliver cohesive features. He brings a mix of applied research instincts and hands-on kernel development that is uncommon among mid-career engineers.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (3)
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performance-optimization7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
RawAccelOfficial/rawaccel
Jul 2020 - Jun 2022
kernel mode mouse accel
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 67 reviews, 309 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to the implementation of new acceleration modes and features within the kernel mode mouse acceleration software. Their work involved modifying core data structures and functions to support these new acceleration modes, as well as updating user-space tools to configure these modes. The user focused on adding features and refining the math behind different acceleration techniques.
kernel-mode
JacobPalecki/rawaccel
Jul 2020 - Nov 2022
kernel mode mouse accel
Contributions:42 commits, 1 PR, 484 pushes in 2 years 4 months
kernel-mode
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