Jake W
Senior Software Developer at Anaqua
Perth, Western Australia
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Top SchoolJake W is a Senior Software Developer based in Perth, Australia, with 12 years of professional experience building high-performance systems across finance, enterprise, and developer-focused products. He excels in multi-language stacks—Rust, Java, Python, TypeScript—and has delivered real-time trading components, data warehouses, desktop apps, and web UIs that span Kubernetes, TimescaleDB, gRPC, and WebAssembly. Jake has a track record of shipping end-to-end solutions: from algorithmic indicators and backtesting frameworks to productivity tools like Document Node and Coupa-integrated automation for procurement workflows. He combines deep systems-level engineering (low-latency trading, multi-process test harnesses) with pragmatic UX and automation work (Chrome extensions, OCR pipelines), often owning both architecture and implementation. Comfortable in startups and large organisations, he repeatedly turns complex domain problems into reliable, production-grade software and tooling.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Software Engineering at Beijing Institute of Technology
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (200)
sparkle10
tesseract10
gradle-plugin10
markdown10
javascript10
software-update10
gwt10
compiler10
multiline10
rust10
integrate10
groovy10
java10
gradle10
kotlin10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
documentnode/epub4j
Oct 2020 - Dec 2024
A java library for reading/writing/manipulating EPUB files, with improvements based on epublib. https://documentnode.io/epub4j
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 35 pushes in 4 years 2 months
java-libraryepub-filesepubimprovementsjava
jiakuan/gwt-uploader
Oct 2016 - Apr 2020
An API to enable sophisticated file upload capabilities within a GWT application.
Contributions:2 reviews, 41 commits, 4 PRs in 3 years 6 months
apifile-uploadnodejsrest-apicapabilities
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