Jake Chvatal
Software Engineer at Improvin'
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolJake Chvatal is a software engineer based in Stockholm with eight years of hands-on experience building production systems across startups and larger tech organizations. He currently engineers at Improvin' after roles spanning Intel, CDK Global, and consultancy work for the NixOS Foundation, bringing a blend of ML, database pipeline, and systems optimization experience. Jake has practical exposure to product-facing roles (Contra ambassador) and academic instruction as a teaching assistant at Northeastern, reflecting both communication skills and technical mentorship. His early work on matrix optimization for supercomputing projects shows a foundation in performance-sensitive computation that still informs his engineering approach. Comfortable across backend systems and developer-focused tooling, he combines pragmatic delivery with open-source-minded consulting experience. Colleagues describe him as a versatile problem-solver who moves fluidly between research-minded tasks and shipping customer-impacting features.
8 years of coding experience
Westview High SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at Northeastern University
Swedish, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (200)
firmware10
vim10
nix-flake10
knowledge-graph10
nixpkgs10
ansible-collections10
nix10
emacs-lisp10
tiddlywiki10
crossword10
graph10
nixos-configuration10
org-mode10
trello10
machine-vision10
Programming languages (31)
Github contributions (5)
improvin/eslint-config-improvin
Feb 2023 - Apr 2025
Eslint config used at Improvin'
Contributions:5 releases, 19 reviews, 29 PRs in 2 years 1 month
jakeisnt/nixpkgs
Dec 2020 - Jun 2023
Nix Packages collection
Contributions:20 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
nixosnix-packages
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