Jake Connor
Staff Software Developer at Canadian International Rover Challenge
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolJake Connor is a Staff Software Developer with 13 years of experience building reliable, production-grade software for complex hardware systems, currently leading efforts at D-Wave in Vancouver. He has deep experience integrating software with physical devices—from superconducting quantum processors to satellite antennas and planetary rovers—delivering higher throughput, better monitoring, and dramatic deploy-time improvements. Comfortable leading cross-disciplinary teams, Jake has reduced downtime and resource usage through automation, infrastructure rework, and clever work-arounds that increase effective yield on experimental hardware. He is a clear, practiced communicator who presents to large audiences and also mentors smaller specialist teams. Outside of industry, he directs a national robotics competition that he scaled to hundreds of students while maintaining an impeccable safety record. His background in engineering physics and hands-on systems work gives him an unusual fluency across hardware, firmware, and cloud-backed orchestration.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Engineering Physics, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Engineering Physics at Carleton University
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Github Skills (14)
directions9
calculus7
sublime6
package-control6
julia5
sublime-text5
derivative5
cas5
utf3
differentiation3
cli2
common-lisp2
command-line-parser2
command-line1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jakeconnor/optics
Jun 2013 - Aug 2013
Contributions:47 commits in 2 months
jakeconnor/JuliaCompletions
Dec 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:1 release, 5 commits, 1 PR in 8 months
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