Jonathan Reynolds
Senior Software Engineer at Roblox
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Reynolds is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building high-performance frontends and media pipelines, currently focused on platform chat at Roblox after a multi-year tenure at Meta/Reality Labs. He has shipped camera and audio features used by billions, led HDR and dynamic audio work for Instagram and Messenger, and partnered with Samsung and Google to integrate device camera capabilities. Comfortable across full stack and native Android, he’s contributed to notable open-source projects including GearVRf and PyTorch’s Captum (creating a React-based Jupyter widget), reflecting hands-on experience in VR, ML tooling, and developer UX. Known for pragmatic system design and improving developer workflows, he blends production-scale product engineering with research-adjacent algorithm work to tame complex media and XR problems.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Moline High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
English, Chinese, Italian
Github Skills (14)
javascript10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
react10
webpacker9
java9
webpack9
opengl9
jupyter-notebook9
javas9
css-modules8
android8
python7
interpretation6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pytorch/captum
Oct 2019 - Oct 2020
Model interpretability and understanding for PyTorch
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 9 PRs, 1 push in 1 year
Contributions summary:Jonathan contributed to the development of the Captum Insights Jupyter widget, focusing on the frontend implementation. They created the widget using React, interacted with Jupyter widgets base, and integrated it with the Captum framework. Key changes include modifying webpack configurations, developing React components, and creating necessary API calls to interact with the backend service. Additionally, they refactored the frontend code to use CSS modules for styling.
pytorchinterpretable-aifeature-importanceunderstandinginterpretability
Samsung/GearVRf
Jun 2017 - Sep 2017
The GearVR framework(GearVRf) is an Open Source VR rendering library for application development on VR-supported Android devices.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 22 PRs, 52 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily worked on enhancing the GVRPicker class, focusing on providing UV and Barycentric coordinate information for mesh colliders to improve object picking capabilities within the GearVR framework. Their contributions include modifying the GVRPicker and related native code to incorporate these new features, which provides texture collision data in GVRPickedObject and updates the picker. These changes suggest an effort to improve the interaction and data retrieval from objects within the VR environment.
oculus-questvirtual-realityandroid-devicessupportedandroid
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