Jane Mercer
Senior Software Engineer & AI Engineer at Techlusion
Modesto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJane Mercer is a Senior Software and AI Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building full-stack web applications, scalable backend services, and AI-driven product features for startups and SaaS companies. She combines expertise in React, Next.js, Node.js, Python, and TypeScript with practical experience integrating LLMs and designing API-first architectures to automate workflows and boost productivity. Jane has a strong systems and deployment mindset—comfortable owning features end-to-end from prototyping to production support—and recently focused on AI startup environments at Techlusion. Her open-source contributions include cryptography-focused work on the prominent Zcash project, where she improved build determinism and modernized legacy C++ types, reflecting a detail-oriented approach to secure, maintainable systems. A University of Arizona graduate in mathematics and computer science, she pairs rigorous technical foundations with a knack for translating AI concepts into reliable business-facing products.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Github Skills (5)
build-system10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
cryptography10
zcash10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
zcash/zcash
Oct 2016 - Jan 2017
Zcash - Internet Money
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Cryptography Engineer
Back-end Developer / Cryptography EngineerContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 287 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jane primarily contributed to the underlying cryptography library within the Zcash project. Their commits focused on adapting the code to use C++11 fixed-width types, ensuring more consistent data representation, as well as explicitly passing compilation and build parameters to various build processes. The user also worked on converting legacy code, such as long long and unsigned long variables, to C++11 fixed-width types, which improved code consistency and maintainability. Furthermore, the user also updated the configuration and build scripts, enhancing the deterministic build capabilities and improving the overall build process.
zcash
radix42/zcash4mac
Dec 2016 - Mar 2018
ZCash Desktop GUI Wallet
Contributions:91 commits, 51 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 3 months
zcash
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