Jake Robinson
United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarJake Robinson is a pragmatic software engineer and cryptographer with five years of experience building secure, high-performance systems—particularly in Rust—across desktop, backend, and embedded domains. He contributed core cryptographic functionality and security leadership to the open-source Spacedrive project, improving performance (e.g., migrating CAS IDs to BLAKE3) and hardening key management and OS keychain integrations. Equally comfortable reviewing PRs and writing low-level firmware, he favors Rust for embedded work (ESP32-S3, STM32, RP2040) and designs custom PCBs to control product quality end-to-end. Jake pairs hands-on hardware skills (PC building and advanced repairs) with strong backend and frontend fluency (React, TypeScript, Python), making him effective across the full stack. He’s driven by writing cleaner, safer, and more performant code, and by applying thoughtful cryptographic engineering to real-world applications.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (11)
crypt10
key-management10
encrypt10
hashing-algorithm10
rust10
decrypt10
file-encryption10
encryption10
cryptography10
decryption10
security10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
spacedriveapp/spacedrive
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Spacedrive is an open source cross-platform file explorer, powered by a virtual distributed filesystem written in Rust.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:364 reviews, 91 commits, 213 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jake primarily focused on developing and refining the crypto library within the Spacedrive project. Their contributions included implementing core functionalities like key derivation, encryption, decryption, and stream-based encryption, along with handling various cryptographic aspects related to file security. The user's work involved significant refactoring and enhancement of the cryptographic components, including adding support for key management, access controls, and integration with OS keychains, all while ensuring robust handling of security vulnerabilities.
virtual-distributed-filesystemrustlinuxfile-explorerdistributed-systems
brxken128/dexios
May 2022 - Jan 2023
A secure file encryption utility, written in Rust.
Contributions:13 releases, 32 reviews, 1496 commits in 8 months
securecryptographyrustsecurityaes-256-gcm
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