Jake Mcleman
Software Engineer at Nintendo
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Mcleman is a software engineer with six years’ experience building high-performance, accessible front-end systems for products used at scale. Trained in low-level game engine development at DigiPen, he brought that performance-first mindset to Microsoft, contributing to Whiteboard Web and Chromium-based Edge and shipping accessibility improvements in widely used developer tooling like Chrome DevTools. Now at Nintendo, he combines platform-focused engineering with a passion for inclusive, cross-platform experiences and developer tooling. Beyond shipping features, he built Azure-based telemetry analysis to surface customer pain points, showing a knack for turning data into product improvements. Colleagues know him for balancing low-level technical rigor with practical UX and accessibility solutions that make complex UIs usable for everyone.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Lakewood High SchoolAssociate of Science - (incomplete), Astrophysics, Associate of Science - (incomplete), Astrophysics at Red Rocks Community CollegeBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Digipen Institute of Technology
English, French
Github Skills (11)
html10
accessibility10
css10
acessibility10
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
developer-tools10
accessibilityservice10
devtools10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ChromeDevTools/devtools-frontend
May 2022 - Nov 2022
The Chrome DevTools UI
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer / Accessibility Specialist
Front-end Developer / Accessibility SpecialistContributions:6 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Jake focused on improving the accessibility and usability of the Chrome DevTools UI. Their contributions include adding ARIA labels to data grid containers to improve screen reader compatibility and modifying ViewManager elements to ensure proper screen reader behavior for expandable content. Furthermore, the user addressed visual display issues in high-contrast modes and removed a default resizer element to prevent focus stealing. They also corrected the rendering of separators within context menus to improve screen reader navigation.
chromedevtoolschrome-devtoolsjavascriptinstrumentation
jamclema/hint
Feb 2022 - May 2022
💡 A hinting engine for the web
Contributions:9 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
javascript
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