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Jack Waller

Jack Waller developed and maintained core backend infrastructure for drift-labs, focusing on the dlob-server and keeper-bots-v2 repositories. Over nine months, he delivered features such as real-time order book aggregation, dynamic Redis routing, and robust CI/CD automation, using TypeScript, Node.js, and AWS Kinesis. Jack implemented environment-driven configuration, enhanced WebSocket streaming, and introduced observability improvements to support scalable, reliable data delivery. His work included refactoring for maintainability, integrating event-driven architectures, and strengthening deployment pipelines. By addressing both feature development and operational stability, Jack ensured production parity, reduced deployment friction, and enabled flexible, high-throughput systems for real-time trading applications.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

82%Features

Repository Contributions

65Total
Bugs
5
Commits
65
Features
23
Lines of code
4,743
Activity Months9

Work History

October 2025

3 Commits • 1 Features

Oct 1, 2025

Month: 2025-10 — Drift Labs: DLOB server delivered reliability improvements and sharpened observability, driving measurable business value through more predictable data delivery and faster issue triage.

September 2025

12 Commits • 4 Features

Sep 1, 2025

Delivered real-time streaming and data delivery enhancements across drift-labs' server and protocol layers, with a focus on reliability, granularity, and multi-client compatibility. Implemented streaming capabilities for the DLOB server, granular WebSocket orderbook updates, and Laserstream-based program account subscriptions, while ensuring naming consistency and maintainability. A rollback was executed where Laserstream integration introduced stability concerns, with subsequent restorations of core reliability through targeted fixes.

August 2025

16 Commits • 4 Features

Aug 1, 2025

August 2025 summary for drift-labs/keeper-bots-v2: Delivered core feature enhancements, reliability improvements, and observability upgrades that drive throughput, stability, and business value. Key work included refactoring JetProxyTxSender to support multiple submission endpoints, distribute transactions, switch to a single txSig, and improve error handling with Promise.any, complemented by timing instrumentation; introduced TxRecorder for PythCranker transaction metrics and enhanced logging of landed/sent slots and signatures for end-to-end traceability; boosted network performance and observability with HTTP/2, request pipelining via undici, DNS caching, OpenTelemetry instrumentation, and timing logs; and performed maintenance cleanup by removing the liquidator deployment to simplify CI. These changes collectively improve throughput, reduce latency, enable better diagnostics, and simplify maintenance.

July 2025

3 Commits • 2 Features

Jul 1, 2025

July 2025 (2025-07) monthly summary for drift-labs/dlob-server: Focused on improving data accuracy and configurability, with two feature enhancements and groundwork for robust ignore-list handling. Emphasis on business value, reliability, and operability of the DLOB service.

June 2025

7 Commits • 3 Features

Jun 1, 2025

June 2025 monthly summary for drift-labs/dlob-server. Delivered three major capabilities: 1) Aggregated Order Book Data and UI Visualization, enabling multi-level aggregation, grouped data exposure to UI via a dedicated HTML template, and WebSocket connectivity with bandwidth tracking to reduce UI data transfer. 2) DLOB Offload and L3 Snapshot Streaming, introducing an offload queue (AWS Kinesis) and throttling-enabled offloading of L3 snapshots, with refinements to throttle behavior to manage processing load. 3) Configurable Perpetual Markets Loading, making PERP_MARKETS_TO_LOAD configurable via an environment variable with a sensible default, enabling dynamic selection of perpetual markets to load. These changes deliver business value by lowering bandwidth and UI data transfer, enabling scalable streaming, and increasing operational flexibility for market loading. Key commits demonstrating these work include 6522990333754e1ff8e72cb3b137c502dca6f541; acc695052d78af35136bb07a50e64290ac896703; 1d722e167580e2bd0883cd7e2fb1d0e637f82c8f; 756812bbdcfdee01640f97c71fe85a70955e5263; 447eccbd50ebe846c16bb87c6de8df548b6c4182; f806d0c369a42bd43dde4805e1216024f6054539; a9bdf07cfa0e5406d6a02cae87c052260652b515.

May 2025

3 Commits • 1 Features

May 1, 2025

May 2025 monthly summary for drift-labs/dlob-server focused on stabilizing the data pipeline for mainnet deployments and ensuring production parity. Delivered a non-functional alignment patch to drift-common to match mainnet configuration, and implemented robust safeguards for oracle data ingestion and batch processing without altering core application logic. Upgraded dependencies to improve stability and reliability of oracle data flows.

January 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Jan 1, 2025

January 2025 monthly summary for drift-labs/dlob-server: Implemented Build Toolchain Standardization by switching the project from Bun to Yarn, updated the Dockerfile to use Yarn for installations and builds, and aligned dependency versions to yarn.lock to ensure reproducible builds across development, CI, and production. This change reduces environment drift, improves build reliability, and accelerates onboarding for new contributors. No additional major features or critical bugs fixed this month.

December 2024

14 Commits • 5 Features

Dec 1, 2024

December 2024 focused on strengthening deployment reliability, traceability, and developer velocity across drift-labs' core platforms. Key outcomes include end-to-end CI/CD automation for DLOB and KeeperBots workflows, improved Docker tagging for clarity, and on-demand deployment controls, all while enhancing data integrity in messaging and ensuring SDK-history-server alignment during updates. These efforts reduce deployment friction, enable faster delivery of business capabilities, and improve cross-team collaboration.

November 2024

6 Commits • 2 Features

Nov 1, 2024

Concise monthly summary for 2024-11 focusing on drift-labs/dlob-server infrastructure improvements and scalability. No major bugs reported this month; primary work consisted of refactoring and feature work to support dynamic Redis client configuration and environment-driven routing for Helius trades. The changes align with infrastructure migrations and enable faster adaptation to future Redis-based data paths.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness88.6%
Maintainability88.4%
Architecture85.2%
Performance84.4%
AI Usage22.2%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

DockerfileHTMLJavaScriptTypeScriptYAML

Technical Skills

API DevelopmentAPI IntegrationAWSAWS KinesisAsynchronous ProgrammingBackend DevelopmentBot DevelopmentBuild AutomationCI/CDCode CleanupConfiguration ManagementData AggregationData StreamingDebuggingDependency Management

Repositories Contributed To

4 repos

Overview of all repositories you've contributed to across your timeline

drift-labs/dlob-server

Nov 2024 Oct 2025
8 Months active

Languages Used

JavaScriptTypeScriptYAMLDockerfileHTML

Technical Skills

Backend DevelopmentConfiguration ManagementEnvironment ConfigurationEnvironment VariablesError HandlingNode.js

drift-labs/keeper-bots-v2

Dec 2024 Aug 2025
2 Months active

Languages Used

YAMLJavaScriptTypeScript

Technical Skills

AWSCI/CDDevOpsDockerGitHub ActionsKubernetes

drift-labs/protocol-v2

Sep 2025 Sep 2025
1 Month active

Languages Used

TypeScript

Technical Skills

API IntegrationBackend DevelopmentCode CleanupDependency ManagementFull Stack DevelopmentRefactoring

drift-labs/drift-common

Dec 2024 Dec 2024
1 Month active

Languages Used

YAML

Technical Skills

CI/CDGitHub Actions

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