Davis, California, United States
I'm currently conducting research in programming languages and security at Prof. Stanford's Davis PL Lab, as well as research in database systems. Notable projects for both include Regolith, a secure Regex library for JavaScript, and RedoxQL, a database that won first place in UC Davis' database competition. My research with Regex led me to present a poster about linear-time regex engines: https://jr0.org/images/redos-research.png. Notable hackathon wins include Hack Davis, UC Davis' annual hackathon, YC Agent Mail hackathon, receiving over $5k in awards, 1st place in climate pitch competition, Vibe Code by Transpose Platform receiving over $400 in awards, and placed 3rd for ProductCon 2025. My Regex project Regolith recently appeared on the front page of Hacker News, receiving attention from the community. I also maintain a few libraries in Rust, Python, and JavaScript totaling over 170k downloads across the three languages. Those include auto-clock-speed, efcl, kronicler, regolith, and statistical-tests-rs. https://crates.io/users/JakeRoggenbuck, https://pypi.org/user/jakeroggenbuck/, and https://www.npmjs.com/~jakeroggenbuck. I'm passionate about building useful products which led me to found and scale a club search product to 10k students and a course recommendation product to 20k students. The latter handling over 1 million endpoint visits over tens of thousands of sessions from users. The best way to view my work is on https://github.com/JakeRoggenbuck and https://jr0.org.
Presented research at URC for Regular Expression Denial of Service Attacks. See https://jr0.org/#current-research
- Created a standard for behavioral driven development used across multiple organizations leading to improved reliability