Jacob Paton
Software Engineer at Apple
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Paton is a software engineer at Apple with a strong foundation in operating systems, embedded, and distributed systems, bringing nine years of hands-on experience since his University of Alberta CS degree. At Apple he works on the media stack—building device discovery, peer-to-peer transport, and synchronized group playback features—leveraging networking and low-level frameworks. His background includes kernel and IPC work at BlackBerry QNX and high-performance networking features at Arista, where he implemented hardware-accelerated failover and rigorous kernel testing that pushed coverage above 98%. Comfortable across C, C++, and systems-level tooling, he also has experience building web apps and automation, and has mentored students through Google’s Developer Student Club. Based in San Diego, he combines production-grade systems engineering with a track record of improving reliability and observability in constrained, real-time environments.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of AlbertaProgramming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cmput301w19t20/Vitabu
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
Just like Kijiji is "village" in Swahili, Vitabu is "books" in swahili.
Contributions:112 commits, 48 PRs, 81 pushes in 1 month
kijijiswahilivillage
josephmeleshko/GoodQuestion-Hackathon2018
Jan 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:38 pushes in 6 months
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