Jeff Rose
Senior Backend Engineer at Rivalry (TSX: RVLY)
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJeff Rose is a Senior Backend Engineer with 11 years of experience who helped build Rivalry’s financial and gaming infrastructure from the ground up, including write-only ledgers, distributed locking, KYC/AML flows, and Fireblocks-backed crypto wallets through IPO. He blends a gamedev background—shipping a Nintendo Switch indie title and designing real-time servers for 2,000+ concurrent players and provably-fair RNG—with rigorous engineering for regulated financial systems. A teacher at heart who formerly instructed game programming and physics, Jeff emphasizes understanding problems, careful planning, and documenting learnings to lift teams and codebases. He systematically leverages LLMs for AI-augmented engineering while keeping human judgment central, and contributes to open-source front-end tooling improvements. Based in Toronto (DigitalMachinist online), he’s now seeking Staff or Principal roles in regulated finance or gamedev and is training for his first half-marathon.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Diploma, Game Programming, Honours Diploma, Game Programming at Humber CollegeB. Eng., Engineering Systems and Computing, B. Eng., Engineering Systems and Computing at University of Guelph
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Github Skills (5)
javascript10
front-end-development10
jquery10
event-handling10
performance-optimization10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
miguel-perez/smoothState.js
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
Unobtrusive page transitions with jQuery.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 5 PRs, 18 comments in 18 days
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and stability of the smoothState.js library. Their contributions include improving event handling for click and submit actions by addressing edge cases with falsey values. The user also implemented rate limiting to prevent double-clicks and redundant form submissions, improving overall user experience and efficiency. They also addressed caching issues related to form submissions.
jquery
DigitalMachinist/ConcurrentPriorityQueue
Dec 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 3 pushes, 3 tags in 2 months
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