Jeremy Rose
Staff Software Engineer at Slack
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeremy Rose is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 20 years of experience building and maintaining desktop and systems software, currently focused on Slack’s Electron-based desktop app. He has deep C++ and build-system expertise demonstrated by contributions to Electron, Chromium content, Node.js, and the Ninja build tool, plus hands-on work adapting APIs and fixing platform-specific build/linking issues. Jeremy blends backend systems work with frontend polish—he’s updated Chrome extension samples and UI behaviors while also contributing core gameplay and memory-inspection features to popular open-source games like Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead and Dwarf Fortress tooling. Comfortable across the full stack of product, build, and runtime layers, he’s known for refactors that improve maintainability and for tackling subtle cross-platform and rendering problems. His background includes product work at Google and robotics-driven automation at Transcriptic, and he occasionally ships indie games, showing a longtime passion for applied software and play.
20 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at UNSW Australia
English
Github Skills (54)
javascript10
c-language10
ssl10
tls1210
runtimes10
gameplay10
electron10
api-design10
dwarf10
testing10
css10
memory-management10
chromium10
c1110
chrome-extension10
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
electron/electron
Mar 2018 - Jan 2023
:electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2080 reviews, 1598 commits, 2487 PRs in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jeremy's contributions focused on implementing changes to the DelegatedFrameHost API. These changes included modifying code related to offscreen rendering with the Viz compositor, and adapting APIs to accommodate changes in the Chromium code base. Further modifications involve using unique pointers for SpellcheckRequest and updating patches for V8.
jsc-plus-plusdesktop-appscssjavascript
CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA
Sep 2016 - Nov 2022
Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 reviews, 64 commits, 137 PRs in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jeremy primarily contributed to the core gameplay mechanics and underlying systems of the Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead game. They focused on modifying and refining existing C++ code related to map features, item functionalities, and monster generation, and refactored code for better organization and efficiency, such as changing data structures. Furthermore, they made contributions by converting existing functions and calls to more recent functions, thereby improving code maintainability. Their work demonstrates a strong understanding of the game's internal logic and data structures.
gametrinitycorecataclysmset-inazerothcore
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