Jacob Shiohira
Co-Founder at Ora
United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJacob Shiohira is a software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience spanning startups and large tech companies, currently building at Orca after co-founding Ora and contributing at Metaplex Studios and Amazon. He blends backend and DevOps expertise—demonstrated by automating build, release, and versioning workflows for the well-known Metaplex program library—to streamline software lifecycles and shipping. A dual Computer Science and Mathematics major with a Business Management minor from the Raikes School, Jacob pairs analytical rigor with product-minded thinking shaped by roles from APM internships to SDE work. He thrives on learning and tackling unfamiliar challenges, reflected in CliftonStrengths like Learner and Futuristic and a playful GitHub handle, "experimentooor." Comfortable moving between automation, systems, and product-facing problems, he brings entrepreneurial grit from founding campus ventures to shipping production systems at scale.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School General Studies, High School General Studies at Bentonville High SchoolBachelor's Degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Nebraska-LincolnN/A Japanese Language Japanese Business Japanese Culture, N/A Japanese Language Japanese Business Japanese Culture at Senshu University (専修大学)
Github Skills (13)
version-control10
automation10
github-ci10
javascript10
automations10
rust10
npm10
githubaction-workflow10
cicd10
solana9
metaplex9
git9
blockchain8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
metaplex-foundation/metaplex-program-library
May 2022 - Nov 2022
Smart contracts maintained by the Metaplex team
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:29 reviews, 28 commits, 51 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily focused on automating and improving the project's build, release, and versioning workflows. Their contributions include setting up auto-publishing to NPM and the crate registry, appending version information to the pull request flow, and publishing version changes on PR merge. They implemented actions using JavaScript to manage versioning commands, list changed files, and publish packages. These changes indicate a focus on streamlining the software development lifecycle.
solanarustethereumblockchainmetaplex
jshiohaha/metaplex-program-library
May 2022 - Jun 2022
Smart contracts maintained by the Metaplex team
Contributions:39 reviews, 51 PRs, 77 pushes in 1 month
ethereumblockchainmetaplexsoliditysmart-contracts
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