Andrew Jackson
Head Of Software Development at Open GI
Basingstoke and Deane, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Jackson is an accomplished software leader with over a decade of senior engineering and product delivery experience, now serving as Head of Software Development at Open GI. He has repeatedly scaled teams and engineered organisational change—from founding startup roles to heading global engineering organisations—building cross-functional, matrixed teams and strong cultures of curiosity and collaboration. Technically hands-on across Go, Python, Java/Scala and modern web stacks, he blends strategic architecture work with code-level mentorship and operational delivery in cloud and regulated on‑prem environments. His background includes scaling engineering at DataSift and GlobalSign, leading global data platforms at Dentsu Aegis, and founding Centrix’s architecture practice that helped earn industry recognition. Known for introducing Agile frameworks and product-aligned team structures, he pairs pragmatic execution with a talent for aligning technology to business outcomes. Based in Basingstoke, he uniquely combines startup grit with enterprise-grade governance and a personal commitment to growing engineering capability.
10 years of coding experience
40 years of employment as a software developer
HND Computing, HND Computing at Farnborough College of TechnologyCove School
Github Skills (17)
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speedometer5
lang4
serial-port4
minimum3
html5-canvas3
javascript3
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golang3
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go2
iot2
rover1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
andrewdjackson/webmemsfcr
Sep 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:150 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
andrewdjackson/memsulator
Apr 2019 - Oct 2022
MEMS 1.6 Emulator
Contributions:44 commits, 80 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 7 months
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