Brandon Jackson
Sr. Software Development Manager at Stealth AI Startup
Frisco, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Jackson is a seasoned software leader with 14 years in management and over two decades of hands-on engineering experience, currently serving as Sr. Software Development Manager at Commonwealth Financial Network while consulting for a stealth AI startup. He blends deep technical chops in backend and DevOps with domain expertise in healthcare, finance, and business intelligence, and has improved developer tooling on notable open-source projects like Apache Hop. A former AWS software development manager and director-level leader at Lionbridge, he excels at scaling teams and shipping reliable, production-grade systems across enterprise and startup contexts. Brandon pairs an MBA with a computer science background, bringing both strategic business perspective and pragmatic engineering judgment to complex, regulated domains. An uncommon strength is his focus on developer experience—streamlining CLI tooling and automation to accelerate team productivity.
14 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Business Administration and Management General, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Business Administration and Management General at Southern New Hampshire UniversityBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of New HampshireExeter High SchoolElectrical Engineering / Computer Science, Electrical Engineering / Computer Science at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (10)
batch10
script10
batchfile10
devops10
java9
orchestration9
orchestra9
javas9
etl8
data-integration8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
apache/hop
Aug 2020 - Oct 2022
Hop Orchestration Platform
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:17 reviews, 19 commits, 72 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily focused on improving the usability and functionality of the Apache Hop platform's command-line tools and scripts. They fixed a bug related to debug parameters in the `hop-gui.bat` script and enhanced the `hop-run.bat` script by adding a help section and a debug mode. Furthermore, the user added and modified batch scripts (`.bat` files) for various Hop utilities, including `hop-conf.bat`, `hop-encrypt.bat`, `hop-server.bat`, and `hop-translator.bat`. These modifications suggest an emphasis on improving the developer experience and streamlining the execution of Hop utilities.
orchestrationhopstreamingapachekubernetes
usbrandon/hop-cpython
Aug 2021 - Dec 2023
Contributions:1 release, 3 pushes, 1 tag in 2 years 5 months
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