Summary
Colton Jacobson is a pragmatic software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience and a recent focus on C++ development for embedded and UI systems. He has shipped user-facing and factory tools at Garmin and now builds control software for commercial HVAC at AAON, blending firmware-level rigor with customer-focused UI work. Colton is skilled at designing comprehensive test plans, improving legacy codebases to modern standards, and keeping CI pipelines healthy with tools like Jenkins and Zuul. Comfortable in Agile teams, he moves quickly from ticket to production while maintaining clean, reviewable commits via Git/Gerrit. Notably, he has repeatedly translated factory and field requirements into practical GUIs and testing frameworks that increased usability and operational efficiency. Based in Kansas, he pairs a Computer Science degree from Missouri S&T with a track record of rapidly learning new domains to ship reliable software.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Computer Science, GPA Unweighted: 3.967, High School Diploma, Computer Science, GPA Unweighted: 3.967 at Damonte Ranch High School
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology
Russian, English