Jamie-leigh Blake
Co-founder & VP Of Engineering at OpenKinect
Edmonds, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJamie-leigh Blake is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder with 15 years of experience building and scaling software teams and products in computer vision, AI, and natural user interfaces. As VP of Engineering at Orbbec she led the SDK, firmware, DSP, cloud, and ML efforts that helped grow the company from a 30-person seed-stage startup to a unicorn with a $200M Series D and a market-leading 3D camera platform. She combines hands-on systems expertise—C/C++/C#/Java, cross-platform SDKs, USB protocol and low-end Android optimization—with strategic skills in product strategy, C-level reporting, and high-stakes customer negotiations. An early open-source organizer, she founded the OpenKinect community and contributed to the libfreenect Windows port, seeding the Kinect hacks movement that influenced commercial sensor ecosystems. Notably, she personally built large-scale data-generation and custom ML training tooling that ran on thousands of cores to deliver full-body skeleton tracking—one of the few teams worldwide to solve that problem.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and TechnologyBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at James Madison University
Github Skills (13)
windows10
c-language10
cross-platform10
cmake10
visual-studio10
csharp10
cprogramming-language10
multiplatform10
dotnet-core10
thread9
multithreading9
hyper-threading9
threaded9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
OpenKinect/libfreenect
Nov 2010 - Dec 2010
Drivers and libraries for the Xbox Kinect device on Windows, Linux, and OS X
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 comment in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jamie-leigh primarily contributed to adapting the libfreenect library for the Windows platform and integrating with Visual Studio, demonstrating full-stack proficiency. Their work included updating the build system with the FindThreads.cmake script, modifying the C# wrapper to work with Win32, and adjusting exports for Windows. The user's contributions extended to include minor code cleanup and adding acceleration throttle to glview, indicating a focus on cross-platform compatibility and usability.
driverkinectlinuxwindows
orbbec/astra
Mar 2015 - Apr 2016
Orbbec Astra SDK - build amazing 3D apps with Orbbec 3D cameras
Contributions:621 commits, 8 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 1 month
3d3d-camera
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