David Jackson
Teaching Assistant at Self-employed
Marietta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDavid Jackson is a full-stack MERN developer and seasoned Linux/Vim enthusiast with over a decade of hands-on software and systems experience. He balances teaching budding developers as a Thinkful Teaching Assistant with running a complex home network of 30+ machines that he builds, automates, and maintains—bringing practical systems-level insight to web application development. His background in technical writing for engineering and defense programs honed his attention to detail and configuration management, which he applies to reusable React/Redux components and dynamic state design. Passionate about understanding why software behaves as it does, he treats bugs as learning opportunities and enjoys automating environments from the CLI. Based in Marietta, GA, he’s eager to join a collaborative team where he can continue growing while contributing deep debugging and infrastructure skills.
10 years of coding experience
Full Stack Web Development, Full Stack Web Development at ThinkfulBachelor’s Degree, English, Bachelor’s Degree, English at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (5)
bash4
shell3
redux2
react2
javascript2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
deepbsd/Farchi
Jan 2021 - Sep 2021
Fast Arch Installer
Contributions:133 commits, 148 pushes, 3 branches in 8 months
deepbsd/dotfiles
Apr 2018 - Feb 2025
Contributions:56 pushes in 6 years 10 months
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