Jake White
Senior Research Software Engineer at Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake White is a Senior Research Software Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building Unity and web-based VR simulations for research, training, and education at Purdue University. He combines academic rigor from an MS in Computer Science with indie game development chops as lead programmer/designer at RNG Party Games, the studio behind Backspace Bouken and Bloom. Comfortable across VR, game systems, and web tech, he translates research requirements into interactive, production-ready experiences. Based in West Lafayette, Jake has a strong track record of shipping educational and entertainment projects while mentoring students and collaborating with interdisciplinary teams. Beyond research labs and classrooms, he iterates on playful, experimental game mechanics—bringing a designer’s curiosity to engineering challenges.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Indiana University IndianapolisAcademic Honours Diploma, Academic Honours Diploma at Fishers High School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (26)
calculator10
depth10
simulator9
simulation9
menu8
statistics8
arcade8
redis8
controller8
firmware6
zelda3
snowball3
legend3
java2
cordova2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jake-white/VGC-Battlespot-Usage
Jan 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:53 commits, 4 PRs, 49 pushes in 1 year 9 months
statisticsredisdepthweb-clientpgl
jake-white/jake-white.github.io
Jan 2017 - Aug 2021
Contributions:47 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 7 months
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