Christopher Jackson
Director Of Software Engineering at Applaud Technologies
Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Jackson is a seasoned software engineering leader with over 20 years of hands-on development experience and more than a decade in senior delivery roles, now serving as Director of Software Engineering. He excels at bridging product goals and technical reality—designing scalable .NET Core and Node.js backends, real-time systems with Redis and RabbitMQ, and responsive frontends in Angular/React. Known as a technical anchor, he hands-on architects complex features, leads legacy modernizations, and enforces patterns that prioritize simplicity, quality, and maintainability. At NBCUniversal he designed a high-volume dynamic pricing engine and a distributed data consistency strategy, demonstrating an ability to solve hard synchronization and real-time problems. He pairs pragmatic coding with strategic architecture, often stepping into the codebase for critical implementations while coaching teams on standards. Based in Virginia Beach, he brings a track record of shipping production-grade systems across cloud platforms (Azure/AWS) and containerized deployments.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
CodemashCanton SouthComputer Software and Programming, Computer Software and Programming at ITT Technical Institute-Strongsville
English
Github Skills (172)
postgresql10
hot-reload10
javascript10
camera10
voron10
html10
database10
sqlite10
cockroachdb10
electron10
mysql10
bootstrapping10
cnc-controller10
nodejs10
angular-routing10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cjackson234/klipper-configs
Oct 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
cjackson234/Boxstarter
Jan 2015 - Oct 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 10 months
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