Jefferson Jones
Principal Software Engineer at Bridger Aerospace
Kailua, Hawaii, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJefferson Jones is a founding engineer driving end-to-end software and hardware solutions that span prototyping, mass production, and scalable team leadership. At Ignis Technologies, he leads the creation of unified tools to boost firefighter situational awareness and cross-agency collaboration in wildfire response. A true polymath, he has worked across software, hardware prototypes, and production systems, and has a track record building and mentoring technical teams from startup to scale. Previously, as Director of Software Engineering at Figure, he steered mortgage origination and banking platforms built on Provenance blockchain, contributing to the company’s unicorn trajectory. Earlier roles include CTO and Lead Software Engineer at Beartooth, where he shepherded iOS/Android apps, firmware, and hardware development, delivering integrated hardware-software solutions. Based in Kailua, Hawaii, Jefferson combines hands-on technical depth with a pragmatic leadership style that turns ambitious requirements into practical, auditable systems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Montana State University-Bozeman
Github Skills (165)
material-design-icons10
sailfishos10
android10
unit-testing10
ios10
qt9
openstreetmap9
matcher9
unit-testing-framework9
swift9
maps9
mapbox-gl9
null-safety9
tiles9
geojson9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
masterjefferson/phyter_ios
May 2017 - Dec 2019
iOS Application for the pHyter measurement tool
Contributions:1 release, 9 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 years 7 months
measurementswiftiosios-application
patrickcozzi/Lab--war
Sep 2016 - Dec 2019
Contributions:2 PRs in 3 years 3 months
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