Jake Renzella
Senior Lecturer at UNSW
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolJake Renzella is a PhD-trained AI in Education researcher and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building teaching-first AI and software systems. As a Senior Lecturer and Director of Digital Infrastructure at UNSW and co-founder of Juno Learning, he blends hands-on full‑stack engineering with strategic leadership to deliver large-scale educational products and sovereign AI models. He leads a national AI literacy initiative reaching 250,000+ students annually and secured a $1.5M Google.org accelerator to create games that teach AI concepts. His team’s Debugging C Compiler has provided over 21 million debugging assists and earned a 2024 AFR teaching excellence award, highlighting a rare impact at the intersection of pedagogy and tooling. An active open-source maintainer, Jake contributes across front-end and back-end codebases (notably the doubtfire LMS) and has a public profile explaining AI risks that has been widely cited and translated.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at Deakin UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Swinburne University of TechnologyBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Leicester
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Github Skills (24)
api-rest10
api-design10
restful-api10
rails10
front-end-development10
dotnet-core10
minitest10
activerecord10
rest-api10
game-development10
csharp10
ruby-on-rails10
angular10
javascript9
unit-testing9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
doubtfire-lms/doubtfire-web
Feb 2016 - Jan 2023
Angular web application for the Doubtfire front-end
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 74 reviews, 1247 commits in 7 years
Contributions summary:Jake primarily focused on front-end development, as evidenced by their work in reducing the width of calendar fields and modifying comment-related UI elements. They updated the user interface by changing icons and adding text to the comment send button, indicating a focus on improving the user experience. Additionally, the user reorganized source code files, moving components and modules into designated directories.
front-endtypescriptweb-applicationangular
doubtfire-lms/doubtfire-api
Feb 2016 - Jul 2022
Rails RESTful API for the Doubtfire back-end
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 5 reviews, 339 commits in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jake primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Doubtfire API, enhancing file processing capabilities by adding support for various web file types including SCSS, YAML, XML, JSON, and TS. This involved modifications to the file helper and task models to accommodate these file types. Furthermore, the user added unit tests and GET/PUT tests to ensure the API's functionality, particularly for the units endpoint, and refactored existing tests.
apirailsrestfulrubyrest
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