Jay Baird
Senior Software Engineer at Motive Studio
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Baird is a senior software engineer with 18 years of experience and a 15+-year track record shipping over 20 AAA video game titles, specializing in game engines, animation, tools, and production pipelines. He has led animation engine upgrades and cross-platform ports at EA, improved editor tooling and performance, and mentored engineers while owning critical technical debt and integration efforts. More recently he supported gameplay and engine workflows on Unity’s Emerging Technologies team and now contributes at Motive Studio, maintaining a focus on developer productivity and maintainability. Jay also contributes open-source performance work—authoring a Python bloom filter with a C bitset extension—highlighting his attention to low-level optimization beyond game-specific code. Based in Chicago, he blends deep systems thinking with practical pipeline engineering to keep complex animation and tooling stacks performant and developer-friendly.
18 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Game Development, Bachelor of Science - BS Game Development at Full Sail University
Github Skills (9)
bloom-filter10
python10
bitset10
set-operations9
data-structure9
data-structures9
package7
setuptools7
packaging7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jaybaird/python-bloomfilter
Dec 2008 - Aug 2014
Scalable Bloom Filter implemented in Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 4 comments in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jay primarily contributed to the development of a Python-based bloom filter implementation. Their work involved integrating a C extension bitset for performance optimization and refactoring the code to leverage the native BitSet when available. They also updated the project's packaging and documentation and added set operations like union and intersection. These changes reflect a focus on performance and feature enhancement for the core bloom filter functionality.
bloom-filterpython
jaybaird/artemis
Feb 2026 - Jun 2026
An Adwaita/GTK4 Parks on the Air (POTA) Hunting App written in Vala
Contributions:1 release, 6 PRs, 30 pushes in 3 months
gtkamateur-radioamateurradiognomegtk4
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