Jake Kidd
Software Engineer at Ubitel
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolJake Kidd is a software engineer with eight years of cross-disciplinary experience building high-performance, resource-constrained systems across Python, TypeScript/Full‑Stack, Solidity, C/C++, and Rust. He has shipped robotics features (SLAM, sensor fusion, Kalman filtering), low-level array and embedded audio work, and trust‑minimized blockchain tooling—contributing to notable open-source projects like Connext and front-end work on Jumper Exchange. Comfortable moving between embedded firmware, backend services, and user interfaces, he excels at coordinating complex system interactions and turning prototypes into maintainable products. Based in Boulder, he blends systems engineering rigor with product intuition—an engineer who can both tune an audio pipeline and help design decentralized cellular and multi-chain protocols. An offbeat detail: when not coding or prototyping networked systems he lists “cooking” as his GitHub bio, hinting at a methodical, experimental approach in and out of the lab.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Cinematography and Film/Video Production, High School, Cinematography and Film/Video Production at Freestyle Academy of Communication Arts and TechnologyBachelor’s Degree, Cinematography and Film/Video Production, Bachelor’s Degree, Cinematography and Film/Video Production at Emerson CollegeHigh School, High School at Los Altos High School
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Github Skills (23)
unit-testing10
solidity10
back-end-development10
typescript10
test-framework10
web3js10
typescript-types10
blockchain10
typescripts10
frontend10
react10
php-java-bridge9
jsbridge9
react-native-bridge9
daap8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
connext/monorepo
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Connext is a modular stack for trust-minimized, generalized communication between blockchains.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 646 reviews, 1238 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Jake's commits focus on implementing and modifying back-end features, including the refactoring of internal-used sendBid into fulfill operations file and other refactor changes, the modification of XCallArgs by renaming the parameter and add it to the existing XTransfer. They also worked on tests, including the tests for subgraph and token functions, and other testing code issues, the most significant contribution is the fixes for unit tests of the project.
ethereumcrosschainprotocolblockchaininteroperability
jumperexchange/jumper-exchange
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
Jumper - Multi-Chain Bridging & Swapping
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:49 commits, 17 PRs, 37 pushes in 13 days
Contributions summary:Jake primarily focused on developing and refining the user interface components within the "Jumper - Multi-Chain Bridging & Swapping" repository. Their work involved adding new navigation links, removing legacy functionality like "historical" and "liquidity," and refactoring the interface of active transactions. The commits showcase direct modification of React components, demonstrating the user's dedication to the user interface.
reactswapdappethereumbridge
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