Jazz Turner-baggs
Chat Research Lead
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJazz Turner-baggs is a Chat Research Lead with 13 years of hands-on experience designing realtime system architectures, functional-programming-first solutions, and massively parallel ML platforms. Based in Vancouver, they currently develop protocols for truly decentralized chat at Waku after senior engineering and founding roles at XMTP Labs and Modern Data. Their background spans network management, security, and custom high-performance systems—work rooted in academic research on co-evolutionary genetic programming and GPU-accelerated platforms from Dalhousie. Jazz combines practitioner-level knowledge of cryptographically sensitive, resource-constrained environments with production-grade software delivery for critical applications. They bring an uncommon mix of research depth and product-focused engineering, often applying ideas from genetic programming and parallelism to real-world network and chat protocols. Jazz’s career shows a pattern of moving complex, bleeding-edge concepts into resilient, deployable systems.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science at Dalhousie University
English
Github Skills (41)
sdk-nodejs10
sdk10
javascript9
bigint9
generated-code9
chat7
chat-application7
docusaurus7
swift7
esp326
protobuf6
home-assistant6
ios6
signal6
protocol-buffers6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jazzz/ramble
Jan 2025 - Feb 2025
An intermediate markup tool for embedded protocols
Contributions:3 reviews, 37 PRs, 78 pushes in 21 days
LumenFactory/BoopThereItIs
Jul 2023 - Aug 2023
Contributions:12 reviews, 5 PRs, 3 pushes in 23 days
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