Jake Loo is a seasoned software engineer and startup CTO with 11 years of experience building high-performance multimedia and blockchain systems. As co-founder and CTO of thirdweb, he led engineering on smart contract tooling and contributed core ERC721/ERC1155 implementations that enable easy contract deployment for developers. Prior to thirdweb he built low-latency audio/video pipelines and native streaming features at Bebo and Twitch, demonstrating deep expertise in multimedia systems and performance optimization. Based in New York with a Computer Science background from UC Berkeley, he blends hands-on engineering with product-focused leadership across mobile, native, backend, and blockchain stacks. Known for exploring and experimenting with AI, he brings curiosity-driven craftsmanship to both infrastructure-level problems and developer-facing tooling.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Collection of smart contracts deployable via thirdweb
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:82 reviews, 594 commits, 118 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Jake's commits focus on the development and deployment of smart contracts, specifically for a collection of smart contracts deployable via thirdweb. They are involved in modifying protocol control functionality and deploying smart contracts. They implemented and edited ERC721 and ERC1155 contracts, including their initialization and permissioned functionality. They also updated the code of the token contract, which is likely a core part of the project.
gstreamer plugin to capture frames from video games
Contributions:26 commits, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year
capture-framesgamesvideovideo-gamesgstreamer
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