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Jonathan Blackwood

Data / ML Engineer

// jamaica, jm · UTC-5

Building in the open from Jamaica. Data / ML Engineer.

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Jamaican systems-leaning dev writing Rust tooling for Linux

assessed from open-source footprint

Mid
52signal

Jonathan's strongest work is in Rust and systems—ReShade Linux Install (an alternative ReShade installer for Linux) is his top original project at 2 stars, alongside a Rust Bible app. Solid solo-authored activity (71 commits last year) plus real collaboration on two external group repos. Tempering the picture: a 0.54 abandonedRatio and modest stars mean many repos are experiments. A genuine systems/backend hobbyist with a clear Rust focus and emerging traction.

Authorship & open source

Solo authorwrote 100% of commits on ReShade-Linux-Install
1 merged PRs71 commits / yr2 external projects

Contributes to

  • Chevannese/APGroupProject2025-20260
  • Chevannese/Bin2Business.github.io0

What they build

Backend47%
Systems36%
Data / ML11%
Frontend7%

Industry experience

  • Gaming
  • IoT & Hardware

Signal breakdown

Originality71
Impact27
Consistency80
Polish39
Stars

2

top repo 2

Original repos

13

28% forks

Followers

2

On GitHub

5.8 yr

Live demos

2

Activity

Active

54% stale

Strengths

  • Verified author — wrote 100% of commits on ReShade-Linux-Install
  • Open-source contributor — 2 external projects incl. Chevannese/APGroupProject2025-2026 (0★)
  • Original builder — 13 of their own repositories
  • Ships to production — 2 live demos
  • Backend focus with Systems
  • Domain experience in Gaming & IoT & Hardware
  • Core stack: Rust, Python, C, JavaScript