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Jay Knowles

Full-Stack Engineer

// grand bahama, bs · UTC-5

Software Engineer that builds full-stack web apps and believer that open source is the way to m…

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Scouting report

High-output full-stack tinkerer — 222 commits, 9 deployments

assessed from open-source footprint

Senior
54signal

Jay is a prolific, consistent builder — 222 commits last year across 36 original repos, with 9 of them deployed, and a stated open-source ethos. The honest caveat is signal-to-noise: standout repos are bootcamp and training material (an AI RAG bootcamp, a GitHub slideshow trainer) with zero stars and no external contributions, so impact is unproven. Worth a conversation as a high-activity TypeScript/Python generalist, but the work is practice-heavy rather than production-validated.

Authorship & open source

Solo authorwrote 100% of commits on spils
10 merged PRs222 commits / yr

What they build

Frontend54%
Backend38%
Data / ML8%

Industry experience

  • Data, ML & AI
  • Productivity & SaaS
  • IoT & Hardware

Signal breakdown

Originality77
Impact20
Consistency94
Polish37
Stars

0

Original repos

36

44% forks

Followers

6

On GitHub

6.1 yr

Live demos

9

Activity

Active

44% stale

Strengths

  • Verified author — wrote 100% of commits on spils
  • 10 merged pull requests
  • 222 commits in the past year
  • Ships to production — 9 live demos
  • Frontend focus with Backend
  • Domain experience in Data, ML & AI & Productivity & SaaS
  • Core stack: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, HTML

About

Software Engineer that builds full-stack web apps and believer that open source is the way to make better software. — 64 public repositories and 6 followers on GitHub.

Skills

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • HTML
  • Jupyter
  • EJS
  • PHP

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