Andrew Jackson
Senior Solution Architect at AXA XL
Ipswich, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndrew Jackson is a Senior Solution Architect with 13 years of architecture-focused experience and a long software career stretching back to the 1980s, combining enterprise insurance-sector architecture at AXA XL with indie open-source development. He codes across Python, Swift (iOS/macOS), C# and SQL, and contributes backend integrations to notable projects like Home Assistant—adding Mealie todo integration and compatibility checks—while also maintaining Android libraries through his CodeChimp work. Based in Ipswich, he blends pragmatic systems design for large organisations with hands-on feature development and tooling, often building small apps to solve real-world gaps he encounters. That mix of corporate architecture and curious tinkering means he can both draft long-term technical strategy and implement the code to prove it works.
13 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
Moulsham High School
English
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Github Skills (27)
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home-automation10
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home-assistant9
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
codechimp-org/AppRater
Jan 2013 - May 2021
AppRater Library for Android
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:10 releases, 163 commits, 12 PRs in 8 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the `AppRater` library, designed for Android applications. Their work involved adding features such as integrating alternate markets for app ratings, including Amazon. The user refactored code, updated Gradle, and corrected typos, enhancing the library's functionality and maintainability. They also incorporated the ability to customize the rating prompt values.
androidkotlinjitpackkotlin-library
home-assistant/core
Oct 2018 - Mar 2025
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:78 reviews, 49 PRs, 96 comments in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Andrew's commits primarily focused on adding and integrating Mealie shopping lists within the Home Assistant core. They implemented a new todo platform for Mealie, including the creation, updating, deletion, and reordering of to-do items using Python. These changes required interaction with the Mealie API and involved modifications to the `mealie/todo.py` file and related test files, demonstrating a backend focus. They added support for the integration to check for Mealie version compatibility and other changes to the configuration flow.
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