Christopher Jackson
Principal Software Engineer at Collibra
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Jackson is a Principal Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems and leading teams through complex data and platform initiatives. Currently at Collibra after a multi-year tenure at IBM, he has driven microservice architecture, reusable platform components, and operator-driven deployments for data-intensive offerings using technologies like JanusGraph, FoundationDB, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, Java, and Ansible. He blends hands-on full-stack development with DevOps and CI/CD leadership—automating builds, testing, and Hadoop integrations—and has repeatedly taken ownership of deployment and operational reliability for SaaS products. Comfortable in many hats, he pairs system and database administration skills with consulting experience helping small businesses automate tasks and networks. His academic work in evolutionary computing and ant-based optimization hints at a deeper research-oriented approach to problem solving beyond conventional engineering. Based in Harrisburg, PA, he brings a practical, security-aware mindset to architecting resilient data solutions.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Rochester Institute of TechnologyM.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at Penn State University
Github Skills (200)
gremlin10
gulp10
solr10
sdk10
npm-install10
gulp-plugin10
scaffolding9
charts9
properties-file9
graph-database9
messaging9
hbase9
rest-services9
streaming9
operator9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jackson-chris/BDMST
May 2011 - Nov 2011
Contributions:47 commits in 5 months
blindenvy/stocator
Jul 2021 - Mar 2022
Stocator is high performing connector to object storage for Apache Spark, achieving performance by leveraging object storage semantics.
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 8 months
leveragingconnectorapachebig-dataspark
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