Jamey Sharp
Software Team Lead at Portland State Aerospace Society
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJamey Sharp is a seasoned software team lead and systems architect in Portland with 22 years of experience building high-assurance, full-stack systems from embedded flight computers to compiler backends. He combines deep theoretical CS interests (cryptography, compilers, complexity) with pragmatic systems work—kernel and bootloader hacking, protocol and file-format implementations, and production web and backend services. As lead of Portland State Aerospace Society he architects autonomous flight software, sensor fusion and safety interlocks, and his open-source work includes low-level projects like XCB and contributions to Wasmtime and NixOS that improved runtime and RSS correctness. Comfortable translating between C and Rust, optimizing code generation, and designing elegant architectures, he’s available for short-term, high‑value engagements that require both research-grade thinking and hands-on implementation. An unusual strength is his ability to span CPU/architecture considerations up to application frameworks, ensuring designs are both theoretically sound and practically performant.
22 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, 3.67, Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, 3.67, Cum Laude at Portland State UniversityPortland Community College
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Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
jameysharp/corrode
May 2016 - Apr 2017
C to Rust translator
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:335 commits, 40 PRs, 146 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Jamey's contributions primarily involved translating C code to Rust. They focused on implementing a C interpreter within the Rust codebase, specializing it to generate Rust AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) representations. They also implemented and refined the C numeric promotion rules and implemented various language features like blocks, return statements, if statements, and while loops. Furthermore, they worked on implementing the translation of different operators and constructs from C to Rust.
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outreachy/website
Dec 2017 - Apr 2021
Code for the Outreachy website, based on Python, Django, and Bootstrap.
Role in this project:Back-end & Front-end Developer
Back-end & Front-end DeveloperContributions:506 commits, 25 PRs, 200 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jamey primarily contributed to the website's development by splitting out type-specific templates for a StreamField and making heading blocks render HTML headings and be linkable. They also upgraded Bootstrap from version 2.3.2 to 4.0.0-beta.3, modifying the base.html file and CSS styles. In addition to these changes, they updated the project by including changes from another branch and refactored the project's base HTML to include automatic copyright year updates.
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