Jake Van Alstyne
Senior Backend Engineer at Interfolio from Elsevier
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolJake Van Alstyne is a Senior Backend Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building performant systems and native mobile products from Salt Lake City. He has a deep iOS and systems background—authoring multimedia and networking features early in his career—and now focuses on backend services at Interfolio after five years as a senior engineer at Kantata. Jake contributes to open source, including SwiftGit2 bindings to libgit2 where he added repository creation, SSH agent auth, refactors and unit tests, reflecting a commitment to secure, well-tested code. His blend of low-level C/C++ graphics and multimedia work with modern Swift and backend engineering gives him unusual breadth across platforms and performance-sensitive domains. He holds an MS in Computing from the University of Utah and frequently translates product ideas into production-ready features.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
German
Stackoverflow
2,835reputation
320kreached
90answers
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Github Skills (14)
libgit2sharp10
git10
swift10
libgit210
testing9
user-authentication8
authentication8
nsstring6
objective-c6
xcode6
ios6
nsdate6
iphone6
cocoa6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
SwiftGit2/SwiftGit2
Jan 2017 - Feb 2018
Swift bindings to libgit2
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:47 commits, 6 PRs, 1 push in 1 year
Contributions summary:Jake contributed to the implementation of Swift bindings for libgit2. Their work involved adding functionality to create and initialize repositories using the libgit2 library. The user also refactored code, updated comments, and added unit tests to improve code quality and align with modern Swift coding practices. Furthermore, they integrated SSH agent authentication for secure access.
swift-package-managerlibgit2swiftpmswiftcarthage
jakeva/GPUImage
May 2015 - Oct 2018
An open source iOS framework for GPU-based image and video processing
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 4 months
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