Jeff Cruikshank
AI Product Engineer Full Stack Engineer at Avarra
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarJeff Cruikshank is an AI product and full-stack engineer based in Mountain View with 20+ years of product and Mac/iOS engineering experience and five years focused on modern web and blockchain front-ends. He moves between product, frontend, and systems work—shipping secure key storage and cross-platform GUI features at Chia Network and driving Outlook Mac modernization and React Native for macOS at Microsoft. Currently building product and infrastructure at an early-stage enterprise AI startup, he combines rapid prototyping instincts with production-grade security and RPC integration experience. An active contributor to Chia’s repos, he has hands-on Electron/React and Python blockchain work that fixed wallet and RPC edge cases and added keyring passphrase protections. Known for turning UX bottlenecks into sustainable teams and workflows, he blends deep Mac client expertise with full-stack delivery for consumer-facing products.
5 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (16)
key-management10
javascript10
rpc10
front-end-development10
python10
electron10
cryptography10
react10
blockchain10
security10
chain9
ui-design9
debug9
api8
apim8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Chia-Network/chia-blockchain-gui
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Chia blockchain GUI in electron/react
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:776 reviews, 278 commits, 1379 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily focused on improving the user interface and functionality of the Chia blockchain GUI. They fixed bugs related to the wallet balance graph and offer builder functionalities, ensuring correct display of royalties and handling of unknown CATs. Furthermore, the user implemented code changes related to RPC error handling and handling key renaming, showing a good understanding of the application's API interactions and user interface components. The commits demonstrate proficiency in Electron and React based development within the context of the Chia blockchain project.
chia-blockchainreactelectronelectron-reactblockchain
Chia-Network/chia-blockchain
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Chia blockchain python implementation (full node, farmer, harvester, timelord, and wallet)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:871 reviews, 435 commits, 245 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Jeff's commits primarily focus on enhancing and securing the Chia blockchain implementation. The user implemented keyring passphrase protection, including encryption/decryption and migration features. They also worked on daemon RPC updates, such as adding `migrate_keyring` and `validate_keyring_passphrase` functionality. Furthermore, the user addressed security concerns and permissions issues with SSL keys and certificates.
chia-blockchainpythonwalletspython-blockchainwallet
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