Jake Rawsthorne
Senior Software Engineer at Couchbase
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarJake Rawsthorne is a Senior Software Engineer based in Manchester with a decade of hands-on experience building resilient back-end systems. Currently at Couchbase, he focuses on scalable data and networking components, bringing practical expertise in low-level protocol design. An active open-source contributor, Jake has contributed significant network-message implementations and data-structure improvements to the widely used rust-bitcoin library, showing deep familiarity with cryptocurrency networking and Rust. He combines production-grade engineering with a knack for peeling back protocol layers to improve interoperability and reliability—skills that often surface in subtle but critical infrastructure fixes.
10 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (10)
algorithm10
bitcoin10
consensus10
protocols10
rust10
bitcoins10
network-protocol10
data-structure9
data-structures9
cryptography8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin
Apr 2020 - Oct 2020
Rust Bitcoin library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 6 commits, 7 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Jake has primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Rust Bitcoin library. Their work includes implementing new network messages like `feefilter`, `wtxidrelay`, and `addrv2` and updating existing message types. They also modified the inventory item types, and implemented the FilterHeader type. This suggests a focus on improving network communication and data structures within the Bitcoin protocol implementation.
rustbitcoin
jrawsthorne/rust-bitcoin
Apr 2020 - May 2021
Rust Bitcoin library
Contributions:4 PRs, 50 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 1 month
rustbitcoin
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