Philip Taffet
Research And Development Architect at Jump Trading LLC
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolPhilip Taffet is an R&D architect at Jump Trading in Chicago with a strong background in high-performance and distributed systems research. He holds advanced degrees in computer science from Rice University and has a track record of translating network and HPC research into production reliability and performance improvements. At Jump he contributes to core validator software for Solana (Firedancer), implementing data structures, transaction parsing, and metrics instrumentation for a high-throughput blockchain project. His earlier internships at national labs, Microsoft Azure, and Chevron show deep experience diagnosing congestion, building profiling tools, and improving large-scale fabric health. Philip combines rigorous academic training with pragmatic engineering—comfortable moving from low-level performance debugging to shipping backend features in production. An understated strength is his ability to bridge research-quality experimentation with maintainable operational tooling that prevents outages before they occur.
3 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Rice UniversityHigh School, High School at St. John's School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
c1710
data-structures10
algorithms10
c1110
solana10
data-structure10
testing9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
firedancer-io/firedancer
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Firedancer is Jump Crypto's Solana validator software.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 843 reviews, 26 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Philip primarily focused on improving the `firedancer-io/firedancer` repository's core functionalities by addressing bugs related to priority queue (PRQ) implementation and adding new features. They also implemented a transaction struct and parsing capabilities, including counters for metrics. Further contributions include adding a deque data structure and small fixes to address comments after a merge.
jumpsolanaconsensusblockchaincrypto
firedancer-io/specs
Apr 2023 - Mar 2024
Solana protocol specs
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
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