Jake Naviasky
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Naviasky is a Reinforcement Learning Engineer with 11 years of software and systems experience, currently focused on nonverifiable RL at Nous Research. A Carnegie Mellon CS graduate, he began as a founding engineer at Commonwealth Labs and later scaled its engineering organization as Head of Engineering through post-Series A growth. His background spans production-grade systems at Bloomberg—working on core terminal functionality and SRE for metrics and log ingestion—to blockchain infrastructure, where he helped develop and deploy Edgeware and contributed backend improvements to the widely used polkadot-js/api. Jake combines hands-on implementation of complex distributed systems with strategic leadership in fast-moving startups, and he’s known for pragmatic reliability improvements like configurable RPC auto-reconnects and election-related API features. Based in New York, he prefers problems that sit at the intersection of research and production, turning RL and blockchain research into robust, observable services.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (11)
json-rpc10
substrate10
javascript10
polkadot-js10
api10
polkadot10
blockchain10
typescript-types9
web3js9
typescript9
typescripts9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
polkadot-js/api
Jul 2019 - Feb 2021
Promise and RxJS APIs around Polkadot and Substrate based chains via RPC calls. It is dynamically generated based on what the Substrate runtime provides in terms of metadata.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 5 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Jake primarily contributed to the Polkadot-JS API, focusing on adding and refining features related to elections and approval flags. They implemented new derive functions and fixed bugs in existing ones, enhancing the API's functionality for interacting with the Polkadot and Substrate blockchain. Furthermore, the user added a configurable auto-reconnect time for the RPC provider. These changes included adding RPC endpoints, alongside their respective data types, to support Ethereum-related filtering.
rpcdocumentation-examplesruntimeweb3metadata
hicommonwealth/edgeware-cli
Dec 2018 - Feb 2021
Command-line interface for interacting with an Edgeware node
Contributions:122 commits, 7 PRs, 45 pushes in 2 years 2 months
command-line-interfacenpm-clicli
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