Jake Shirley
Senior Software Engineer - Script API Lead at Mojang Studios
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJake Shirley is a Senior Software Engineer and Script API lead at Mojang Studios with 11 years of experience building gameplay systems and developer-facing tooling for Minecraft across platforms. He leads the design and implementation of the JavaScript/TypeScript scripting API, balancing backwards compatibility, documentation, and developer flows for a massive, multi-platform codebase. Comfortable across gameplay, systems, and backend work, he has hands-on experience integrating APIs and data processing in Python—as shown by contributions that extended camera support in a popular unifi-cam-proxy project. Based in Redmond and trained in real-time interactive simulation at DigiPen, Jake pairs a creator-first mindset with pragmatic engineering, and maintains an active community presence under the handle darknavi.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Real Time Interactive Simulation, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Real Time Interactive Simulation at DigiPen Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (9)
camera10
motion-detection10
json10
api10
python10
apidoc10
aiohttp10
error-handling9
git9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
keshavdv/unifi-cam-proxy
Apr 2021 - May 2021
Enable non-Ubiquiti cameras to work with Unifi NVR
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 7 commits, 4 PRs in 10 days
Contributions summary:Jake focused on extending the functionality of the `unifi-cam-proxy` project to support additional camera types. Their primary contribution involved adding support for Reolink NVR cameras, including features for snapshot retrieval and motion event detection. They addressed issues with error handling and refined the snapshotting mechanism, ensuring the integration of new camera types while modifying the core application and its dependencies. The commits suggest experience with API interaction and data processing in a Python environment.
cameranvrunifi-nvrunificameras
JakeShirley/cs261tests
Feb 2016 - Oct 2020
Unit tests for CS261 semester project
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
semester-projecttestingunitsemesterunit-tests
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