Jake Edwards
Founder at Forge: AI Personal Trainer
Tampa, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolJake Edwards is a founder and mid-level backend engineer with nine years of experience building blockchain infrastructure and AI-driven products from node-level systems to consumer apps. He’s a Rust specialist who has shipped core L1 node features, libp2p networking, PoS consensus work, and robust off-chain tooling—often focusing on security, automation, and operator-grade reliability. Jake transitioned from data engineering at American Airlines into blockchain and DeFi, contributing to staking systems, Subsquid/SubQuery indexing, and developer tooling with clear documentation and tutorial content. Currently he’s building Forge: an AI-powered next-generation personal trainer (forgetrainer.ai), blending backend engineering with applied AI for consumer-facing fitness. Notably, he’s led operator benchmarking, multi-node monitoring, and CLI security enhancements that reduced operational risk for testnets and production nodes. Based in Oregon, he combines pragmatic DevOps experience with protocol-level engineering and a knack for turning complex distributed systems into usable products.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Blockchain, Blockchain at Polkadot Blockchain AcademyBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Stephen F. Austin State University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (75)
pallet10
ledger9
blockchain9
bitcoin9
rust8
nft8
gatsbyjs8
lunrjs8
parity8
solana8
polkadot7
smart-contracts7
cryptocurrency7
dao7
scale7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jakerumbles/Warehouse_Inventory
Sep 2018 - Apr 2019
A basic, 3-layer architecture web app for managing the inventory in a warehouse.
Contributions:55 commits, 8 PRs, 42 pushes in 7 months
inventoryreactlayer-architecturewarehousejavascript
jakerumbles/the-rust-programming-language
Dec 2021 - Jun 2024
Contributions:56 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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