Jake Poznanski
Founder at Pozotron, Inc.
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJake Poznanski is a founder and software engineer with 15 years of experience building products that sit at the intersection of AI, machine learning, robotics, and games. He co-founded a successful indie games studio that published 30+ titles and was the first indie to cross $1M on the Windows Store, and later founded Pozotron to apply CTC-based ASR and a novel forced-alignment algorithm to audiobook proofreading. Early engineering roles include flight software at SpaceX and embedded robotics work, reflecting deep systems and real-time expertise. An active contributor to open-source game tooling, his MonoGame optimizations show a knack for low-level performance tuning as well as practical productization. Based in Seattle and Carnegie Mellon–trained, he combines hands-on model development with direct customer-facing sales and operations experience.
15 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (14)
net10
asp-net10
dotnet10
game-development10
csharp10
performance-optimization10
dotnet-core10
graphic9
cross-platform9
playframework8
game-engine7
python6
django6
mysql6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
MonoGame/MonoGame
Oct 2012 - Mar 2017
One framework for creating powerful cross-platform games.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 5 PRs, 77 comments in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jake primarily focused on optimizing the MonoGame framework's internal workings. They made changes to prevent events from firing during object construction, initialized private fields directly, and optimized performance by switching to bit operations and unrolling loops in matrix calculations. Their contributions also included refactoring code for improved efficiency, such as the modification of touch event handling and audio buffer management.
c-sharpgame-frameworkopenalgamesgame-engine
GoodDogAI/rossac
Sep 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 5 PRs in 7 months
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