Jesse Wright
Project Lead, Solid at Open Data Institute
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJesse Wright is a project lead and software engineer with six years of experience building open web technologies and decentralised data platforms, currently leading Solid work at the Open Data Institute while pursuing a DPhil in Computer Science at Oxford. He blends hands-on performance engineering—demonstrated by substantial contributions to N3.js and TypeScript definitions in DefinitelyTyped—with product-focused leadership to advance Tim Berners-Lee’s vision for personal data pods. Previously he architected solutions at Inrupt and advised on privacy-focused health-data projects, bringing practical experience turning Semantic Web research into production systems. Jesse’s background in competitive academic honours (University Medal, ANU) and textbook/exam writing reflects strong analytical rigor and clear technical communication. He’s comfortable across the stack from RDF stores to types and testing, and often improves projects by adding robust tests and addressing backwards compatibility. Colleagues describe him as a developer who pairs deep protocol-level understanding with community-driven open-source collaboration.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - DPhil, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - DPhil, Computer Science at University of Oxford7-12, 7-12 at Mt Saint Patrick College Murwillumbah
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Github Skills (20)
parserator10
javascript10
typesc10
parser10
package-development10
typescript10
type-definition10
typedefs10
type-system10
dts10
typescript-types10
rdf10
typescripts10
serializer9
streaming8
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
rdfjs/N3.js
Mar 2022 - May 2022
Lightning fast, spec-compatible, streaming RDF for JavaScript
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 75 reviews, 7 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jesse significantly contributed to the performance optimization and feature enhancement of the `n3.js` library. Their work included refactoring code to improve performance through removing unnecessary calculations and using `readquads` method to improve efficiency, and fixing performance issues related to sparsely connected entities. They also added tests to verify concurrent read/write behavior. This included improvements to the core logic of the store's methods.
linked-datajavascriptlightningstreamingspec
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Jul 2021 - Jan 2022
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:78 reviews, 5 commits, 12 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Jesse contributed to the project by creating and improving TypeScript type definitions, primarily for JavaScript packages. They added and refined type definitions for the `json-string-splitter`, `n3`, and `@rdfjs/data-model` packages. Additionally, the user addressed backwards compatibility issues and made enhancements to the `n3` package's type definitions. They also added tests to ensure the correctness of the types.
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