Jacob Repp Email & Phone Number

Somerville, Ma, Us

Part of a new team working in the rapidly evolving open-source AI tooling space. Mythica is combining multi-model and generative models with existing PCG and game engines to unlock entirely new ways to realize game worlds.

Los Angeles, California, Us

As an early engineer on infrastructure at CloudKitchens I helped scale critical systems from the ground up globally. From service infrastructure, I moved into hardware development to optimizing the physical logistics at multi-kitchen facilities.Some of my key contributions...Development of an internal product for i8nDevelopment of an internal product for Kubernetes secrets management and replication using Merkle tree diff of content hashes.Global deployment of observability platform on Thanos, including Thanos-receive in an active-active multi-regional deployment.Development of MQTT proxy and backend connectorsDevelopment of HTTP proxy and OTA frameworkBoard and sensor bring-up from breadboard through the complete product life cycle (EVT, DVT, PVT)Working with EE on schematics, including critical part selection, MCU selection integrationShipping three hardware products through the full lifecycle to sustaining in 2 years.Implementation of C++20 firmware platform including: Host-based test suite On-board debugging utilities OTA Service dependency management Service communication (Protobuf over HTTP, MQTT) Telemetry Buffer management/heap management TLS certificate provisioning Factory diagnostics over TCP with Python library and host-based command line FreeRTOS and stdc++ abstractions for multi-threading (queues, tasks, semaphores)C/C++ device drivers for USB host, hub, and HID drivers (USB 2.0 FS) I2C, including bus extenders RS485 + custom protocols (reverse engineering) Current monitors 2-wire temp SHT sensors BM688 RMII for TI and Microchip parts Bare metal implementation for STM32WL55 Radio management STANDBY2 implementation, wake from 4ua sleep Sensor integration and core boot, clock management, wake from low-power framework

Irvine, Ca, Us

Unannounced Title* Building and coaching a new engineering team for a new product* Design and coding for initial services, build and CI infrastructure* Refactoring, cleanup and coaching on systems related to feel and responsiveness* Lead and collaborate within core leadership team and across other Blizzard teams and leadership levelsStarCraft 2* Led engineering team that developed AI interfaces for SC2 used by Google DeepMind* Led engineering team of 12 to modernize and refit most major user facing systems in SC2 for Legacy of the Void* Fixed mathematical issues in the SC2 matchmaker* Designed and managed external contract engineering project on complex service and data center refit* Contributed performance fixes, bug fixes and pipeline improvements across multiple features* Worked across team, company and multiple tiers of leadership to align vision and execution of features in gameHeroes of the Storm* Coded multi-tier HA game message routing infrastructure* Coded and led load testing infrastructure for 2 million concurrent test* Coded in-game store infrastructure including real money and virtual currencies* Updated and improved multiple legacy software services for performance and maintainabilityUnannounced Title* Hired and led team of 4-6 server engineers* Coded new service infrastructure and networking stack* Coded, refactored and optimized multiple engine systems* Led team and contributed code to stabilize and rebuild failed asset pipeline* Worked across the team to address myriad issues in tooling and service infrastructure

Irvine, Ca, Us

* Led team of 10-12 engineers* Coded improvements to engine performance and correct handling of network latency* Created new build distribution interface* Created new solution generation system based on cmake* Built new HA game service infrastructure based on RabbitMQ

Bellevue, Wa, Us

* Helped design and build new multi POP service framework for GuildWars 2

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Unannounced Title* Pitched to execute team and and coded prototype of new social MMO* Led small team to define the vision and goals* Worked across multiple shared teams to direct art and concept planningTabula Rasa* Part of small senior software swat team that rebuilt Tabula Rasa and shipped the game (RIP)* Rebuilt, optimized or threw away multiple services and engine systems to get game to market

Redmond, Washington, Us

* Optimized Xbox Live Matchmaking and tooling* Wrote system to test Xbox Live presence at scale before 360 launch* Wrote automated tests to verify Xbox Live points system

Seattle, Wa, Us

* Coded multiple service level features for enterprise grade XML based CMS (Graph database, Incremental content publishing, Content transformation and device rendering)* Coded Cocoa based client software on Mac OS X* Coded low level C code underlying string handling, XML parsing, memory management* Coded Java servlet render system for deploying sites to compatible containers* On and off site sales engineering for enterprise software clients in education and health verticals

Redwood City, Ca, Us

* Wrote cross platform C/C++ network and service code for Need for Speed and other various EA titles

* Coded radius monitoring service in C for unix based systems* Wrote reporting and various billing back-end systems* Maintained build and versioning systems on FreeBSD