Craig Jackson is a seasoned software leader with 15 years of experience building web platforms and leading engineering teams from hands-on development to DevOps and management. As VP of Engineering at Tech9 after progressing from Principal Software Engineer, he blends technical depth in backend stacks (Ruby/Rails, Node.js, PHP, Python/Django) with strategic delivery and operational reliability. His career includes senior engineering roles across gaming, finance, and services, where he shipped backend systems and maintained long-lived open-source work dating back to a Google Summer of Code project for Drupal. Based in Sandy, Utah, he pairs a pragmatic engineering mindset with people leadership, coaching teams to own end-to-end outcomes. Outside work he applies his coaching skills as a youth soccer coach at Cottonwood FC, hinting at a collaborative, mentorship-first approach to building teams.
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