résumé

Tom Jakubowski

I am a full-stack generalist software engineer and a lifelong tinkerer, always seeking joy in my work.

Built a data system for ingesting, archiving and querying timeseries data from grid energy control systems, using DuckDB’s Ducklake lakehouse format.
Developed packaging, build and release pipelines for a simulation video game startup currently in stealth mode.

Built Prospective, a local-first BI application platform for the web, using the open-source Perspective interactive charting and data analysis library for Javascript and Python. Worked on both backend and frontend of application, including wrangling Prospective’s complex build requirements with Bazel.
Owned both Perspective’s and Prospective’s integration with Pyodide and Jupyterlite, as well as Perspective’s conda-forge feedstock.
Contributed bug fixes, build system improvements and async support to perspective-python.

Developed a soccer tracking quality evaluation system in Python and Node.JS.
Built a Rust FFI layer for C++ computer-vision and tracking algorithms.
Learned Elixir to join the Redstone team, building the internal web application that produced live and post-game player/ball tracking feeds for sports leagues including the NBA, EPL, and MLS.

Built room-scale interactive applications with data visualizations for display wall and immersion room systems at IBM’s Watson Executive Briefing Centers.
Maintained and developed new features and bug fixes for libWebThing, a library which rendered interactive web content in our applications using Chromium Embedded Framework.
Built open-source Node.js bindings for an Oblong platform library, and an experimental V8 wrapper which let Javascript developers write applications for Oblong’s platform.
Sizzle reel, courtesy of my colleague John Carpenter

Developed web application for embeddable polling widgets, used by sites like BleacherReport.

Led development of TuneWiki’s song lyrics website, porting it from Wordpress and ASP.NET Web Forms to Laravel framework.
Built TuneWiki’s #1-ranked Spotify App for synced lyrics.

Contributor to the Rust programming language project.
Added support for new language features to rustdoc, including support for associated types and trait bounds in where clauses.

Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, June 2010.