Jamie Snape
Senior Build And Release Engineer, Autonomous Vehicles at NVIDIA
Cary, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJamie Snape is a Senior Build and Release Engineer specializing in autonomous vehicles, bringing 12 years of cross-domain engineering experience spanning automotive, robotics, finance, scientific software, and academia. With a Ph.D. in computer science focused on distributed autonomous robotic vehicles and game AI, Jamie blends deep research insight with hands-on expertise in C++, Java, Python, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), macOS/UNIX, and build systems. At NVIDIA he leads build and release efforts for AV software, previously driving R&D and infrastructure improvements at Kitware and contributing DevOps fixes to high-profile open-source projects like RobotLocomotion/drake to improve build, test, and developer setup. A certified Java programmer and dual US/UK citizen based in Cary, NC, he is as comfortable authoring install scripts and silencing compiler warnings as he is mentoring teams and publishing academic work. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who reduces developer friction at scale while retaining a researcher’s curiosity for elegant system design.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., M.Sc. at University of OxfordM.Math. (Hons.), M.Math. (Hons.) at University of DurhamM.S., M.S. at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Github Skills (5)
build-automation10
cicd10
cmake9
linux8
testing8
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
RobotLocomotion/drake
Feb 2016 - Jun 2021
Model-based design and verification for robotics.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:117 reviews, 712 commits, 1630 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jamie's commits primarily focused on modifying the build and testing infrastructure of the Drake project. Their contributions included excluding third-party code from the CDash coverage report, updating install scripts for Ubuntu, and fixing compiler-related warnings. Further, they added drake-visualizer dependencies to install scripts. These efforts demonstrate a focus on enhancing the build process, improving test coverage, and streamlining the setup for the project's developers.
roboticsdrake
jamiesnape/drake-external-examples
Jul 2017 - Jun 2021
Contributions:331 pushes, 143 branches in 3 years 11 months
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