Jay Baxter
Senior Lead Software Engineer at Microsoft
Sammamish, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJay Baxter is a Senior Lead Software Engineer with 13 years in game-focused test automation and over two decades of systems and tooling experience spanning Microsoft, Blizzard, EA, Ion Storm, Dell, and startups. He currently leads test automation engineering for major studios including Mojang, 343 Industries, Asobo, and World's Edge, bringing deep expertise in build, patch, and anti-cheat systems honed at Blizzard across franchises like World of Warcraft, Diablo, and StarCraft. Jay blends low-level systems knowledge—from BIOS and device drivers at Dell to Java media and installer systems—with large-scale game engineering practices, making him effective at both infrastructure and studio-facing delivery. Based in Sammamish, WA, he contributes to Community Notes ML on GitHub, reflecting an interest in community-driven machine learning applications alongside his core focus on reliable shipping and automation.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical & Computer Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (16)
databases10
bayesian10
twitter10
database-table10
querying10
crowdsourcing10
database9
sql9
statistics8
large-scale4
deep-learning3
scale3
artificial-intelligence3
machine-learning3
python3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
twitter/communitynotes
Oct 2022 - Apr 2025
Documentation and source code powering Twitter's Community Notes
Contributions:6 reviews, 86 PRs, 101 pushes in 2 years 5 months
crowdsourcingtwitter
probcomp/BayesDB
Sep 2013 - Aug 2014
A Bayesian database table for querying the probable implications of data as easily as SQL databases query the data itself. New implementation in http://github.com/probcomp/bayeslite
Contributions:505 commits in 10 months
queryqueryingsqldatabasessql-databases
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