Jake Potrebic
Senior Software Engineer at Veryfi
California, United States
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Jake Potrebic is a Senior Software Engineer based in California with a decade of hands-on experience building and maintaining high-quality server and backend systems. A Sonoma State Computer Science graduate and former Embry-Riddle engineering student, he combines formal training with a pragmatic focus on shipping tangible results that users interact with. He is a lead maintainer of the Paper Minecraft server platform and an active open-source contributor—fixing tricky parsing bugs and expanding utilities in widely used projects like adventure. At Veryfi he progressed from Software Engineer to Senior Software Engineer, demonstrating rapid impact in production environments. Known for quick learning across languages and frameworks, Jake brings ownership, thorough testing, and a track record of solving subtle edge cases in complex systems.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Sonoma State UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Software Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
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Github Skills (7)
javas10
user-interface10
java10
testing9
json8
amazon-web-services6
django6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
KyoriPowered/adventure
Mar 2022 - Nov 2022
A user-interface library, formerly known as text, for Minecraft: Java Edition
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 17 commits, 4 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Jake primarily focused on enhancing the `adventure` library, a user-interface library for Minecraft: Java Edition. Their contributions centered around fixing parsing issues, specifically handling negative numbers in block NBT components. They also added unit tests to validate the correctness of these fixes. Furthermore, the user implemented `orThrow` and `orDefault` methods for the `Index` utility class, expanding its functionality.
user-interfaceminecraftspigotminecraft-javaminecraft-nbt
Carter-Poe/Paper
Jan 2022 - Mar 2022
High performance Spigot fork that aims to fix gameplay and mechanics inconsistencies
Contributions:2 commits in 1 month
inconsistenciesminecraftfixspigot-forkbukkit
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