Jeaye Wilkerson
Jank Programming Language Creator
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeaye Wilkerson is a pragmatic software engineer and language creator with 12+ years building high-performance systems, games, compilers, and distributed back-ends. He created jank, a native Clojure dialect hosted on LLVM with C++ interop, and maintains open-source tools relied on by thousands of developers. As a hands-on leader and mentor, he has driven core platform work at EA, co-founded and served as CTO of an esports startup, and improved game load times and safety across multiple studios. He blends deep systems-level C++ expertise with functional, value-oriented design from the Clojure ecosystem, often shipping pragmatic, type-safe APIs and tooling. Comfortable both leading teams and breaking into complex systems solo, he pairs market and community research with technical delivery to give products a competitive edge. Based in Seattle, he publishes his work and technical thinking openly at github.com/jeaye and blog.jeaye.com.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Game Development, Game Development at Full Sail University
Github Skills (8)
ncurses10
low-level-programming10
code-library10
rust10
lib10
nix9
build-system8
api-design8
Programming languages (31)
Github contributions (5)
jeaye/ncurses-rs
Apr 2014 - May 2022
A low-level ncurses wrapper for Rust
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 140 commits, 75 PRs in 8 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jeaye primarily contributed to the low-level ncurses wrapper for Rust. Their commits focused on removing GL linkage, modifying example files, and fixing syntax issues. They also updated the project by merging changes from the master branch, indicating involvement in project maintenance and integration. Additionally, they added and modified the shell.nix file to incorporate dependencies.
rustncurseslow-level
libera-programming/bayaz
Jul 2021 - Jul 2022
Bayaz, the First of the Magi, is an enigmatic ancient wizard with eyes and ears seemingly everywhere.
Contributions:70 commits, 2 PRs, 160 pushes in 1 year
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