Jake Urban
Engineering Manager at stellar
Summary
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RockstarJake Urban is an Engineering Manager with 11 years of experience, currently leading partner engineering efforts at Stellar and contributing significant back-end work to its flagship JavaScript and Go SDKs. He combines people leadership with deep technical hands-on expertise in authentication and transaction building, notably enhancing SEP-10 V2 support, webAuthDomain/clientDomain validation, muxed account and memo handling, and timebound challenge transaction logic. Jake’s work improves security and interoperability for one of the most prominent open-source projects in the blockchain payments space, demonstrating an ability to ship careful, spec-aligned changes across languages. He balances practical refactors and robust testing with product-minded thinking, helping teams deliver secure integration points for partner ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
cryptocurrency10
stellar10
javascript10
go10
sdk10
blockchain10
testing10
horizon9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
stellar/js-stellar-sdk
Aug 2020 - Nov 2021
Main Stellar client library for the JavaScript language.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 37 reviews, 10 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Jake primarily focused on enhancing the SEP-10 authentication process within the Stellar JavaScript SDK. They added parameters and validation for the `webAuthDomain` and `clientDomain` to the SEP-10 util functions, contributing to improved security and functionality. Moreover, the user refactored the existing functions and also added new support for muxed account and memo usage. These contributions improved the library's functionality and adherence to the SEP-10 specification.
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stellar/go
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
Stellar's public monorepo of go code
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 41 reviews, 52 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jake primarily worked on enhancing the SEP-10 V2 support within the `go` codebase of the Stellar project. This involved modifying existing code related to transaction building and web authentication, specifically focusing on the `txnbuild` and `webauth` packages. The user's contributions include refactoring and testing, with a particular emphasis on timebound constraints and memo functionality for challenge transactions.
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