Jacob Wirth
Software Engineer IC5 at Meta
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Wirth is a Software Engineer IC5 with 14 years of experience focused on graphics, AR/VR, software architecture, and performance optimization. Currently at Meta and formerly at Microsoft working on HoloLens and the Azure Kinect SDK, he has deep systems-level expertise—evidenced by contributions to the Azure Kinect Sensor SDK and to widely used open-source projects like Shopify's toxiproxy. He combines a detail-oriented engineering mindset with curiosity about how things work, from mechanical systems to abstract logic, and has founded a startup (Frustra Inc.) and benchmarked vector databases. Jacob excels at backend systems, recording/playback and IMU data pipelines, and pragmatic reliability improvements such as race-condition fixes and graceful shutdowns. Based in Redmond, he pairs hands-on implementation skills with an architect’s view of scalable, high-performance systems.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (14)
c-language10
go10
sdk10
cprogramming-language10
concurrency10
testing10
mutex9
kinect9
resiliency9
mux9
matroska9
api8
imu8
apidoc8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/toxiproxy
Sep 2014 - Jul 2018
:alarm_clock: :fire: A TCP proxy to simulate network and system conditions for chaos and resiliency testing
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 223 commits, 65 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to improving the `toxiproxy` project by addressing test race conditions, enhancing code atomicity using mutexes, and removing unnecessary functionalities related to ephemeral port usage. Further commits involved migrating code to use a tomb for more graceful shutdowns and implementing the initial toxic and pipe structure, including functionalities for adding latency. They also made modifications to the API endpoints and added example benchmarks to improve performance.
chaosclockconditionssimulateproxy
microsoft/Azure-Kinect-Sensor-SDK
Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
A cross platform (Linux and Windows) user mode SDK to read data from your Azure Kinect device.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 13 PRs, 34 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily focused on enhancing the Azure Kinect sensor SDK, with contributions centered around the `k4arecord` library. Their work included integrating new features related to recording playback, such as enabling playback documentation and adding functionalities like depth_delay_off_color. The user also addressed build issues and refactored code related to IMU recording and playback, showcasing a deep understanding of the SDK's internal workings.
windowslinuxkinectsdkopenvr
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