Jake Leahy
Software Developer at Macquarie Group
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Leahy is a software developer based in Melbourne with 10 years of hands-on experience and a current role at Macquarie Group. He contributes actively to the Nim ecosystem—working on the Nim compiler and the Nimble package manager—bringing practical compiler and backend engineering skills to open source projects used by many in the Nim community. His work spans bug fixes, test coverage, build automation and release engineering (including Termux packaging), showing a strong focus on reliability and reproducible builds. Comfortable across systems-level tooling and package management, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a taste for niche languages, and often prefers code to self-promotion—check his GitHub for examples.
10 years of coding experience
Computer science, Software, Computer science, Software at RMIT University
Github Skills (19)
nim-lang10
package-management10
testing10
macros10
linux10
automation10
compiler-compiler10
automation-testing10
packager10
package10
compiler10
automations10
metaprogramming9
lang9
efficientnet9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
nim-lang/nimble
Dec 2021 - Nov 2022
Package manager for the Nim programming language.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 21 commits, 5 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Jake primarily contributed to the Nimble package manager by fixing bugs and implementing new features. Their work included resolving issues related to package downloads and refreshing package lists. They introduced test cases to improve the reliability of the package manager and implemented task-level dependencies, enhancing the flexibility of the build process. Furthermore, the user added support for lock files and improved the `dump` command to provide more comprehensive package information.
nim-langnimvlangpackage-managerprogramming-language
nim-lang/Nim
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Compiler Engineer
Back-end Developer & Compiler EngineerContributions:15 reviews, 31 commits, 78 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Jake primarily contributed to the Nim compiler codebase, focusing on bug fixes and enhancements. Their work involved fixing type mismatches in async logging, extracting doc comments and runnables, and addressing issues related to documentation generation and the JS fetch options. Key contributions include improvements to the handling of tuple sizes in `jsonutils` and enhancements to the JS backend.
pythonnim-langelegancecompilerprogramming-language
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