Jake Shorty
Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Shorty is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems and DevOps integrations, currently contributing to GitHub’s Codespaces as part of the official GitHub CLI team. Based in Denver, he combines production-facing backend work with infrastructure-focused changes—adding Codespaces validation, SSH/SCP path checks, and billing visibility to git tooling. His career spans fast-paced analytics and platform roles at Custora and Amperity and includes early fieldwork in biology and wildlife conservation, which surfaces in a knack for observational problem solving and an offbeat passion for birding. A pragmatic open-source contributor, he focuses on shipping reliable developer tooling that bridges UX and operational concerns.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Tanzania: Wildlife Conservation and Political Ecology, Tanzania: Wildlife Conservation and Political Ecology at School for International TrainingGorham High SchoolBA, Biology, BA, Biology at Bowdoin College
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Github Skills (20)
github-cli10
command-line-interface10
codespaces10
go10
github-api10
git9
golang9
apidoc8
api8
api-design8
activerecord6
hash6
conditional-statements6
ruby-on-rails6
attribute6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cli/cli
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
GitHub’s official command line tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 28 commits, 9 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jake's commits primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the GitHub CLI tool. They implemented features related to Codespaces, including checking paths for SSH and SCP commands and adding an optional location flag for codespace creation. Additionally, the user added pre-flight requests to the API client, enabling the CLI to validate the repository for codespaces and display billable owner information. These changes demonstrate involvement in both backend development and potentially aspects of DevOps with the integration of Codespaces.
golangcommand-line-toolgocommand-linecli
jshorty/petri-dish
Feb 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:55 commits, 46 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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