Gabriel Jackson
Cloud Platform Engineering Lead
Detroit Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolGabriel Jackson is a Cloud Platform Engineering Lead with 11 years of experience building and operating scalable, secure cloud systems from Detroit. He’s spent the last several years growing through hands-on roles at Mattermost, progressing from Software Design Engineer to leading the cloud platform team and shaping production reliability and developer tooling. Gabriel contributes to notable open-source projects like Mattermost—adding CLI enhancements, database health checks, and secure password-update flows—demonstrating a focus on observability, security, and maintainable code. His background spans telecom and platform engineering at Ericsson and Apcera, bringing strong distributed-systems and networking foundations to platform design. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer-leader who balances shipping features with long-term system robustness. He pairs a BS from Oakland University with a practical knack for improving developer workflows and operational health.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Science (BS) at Oakland University
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Github Skills (7)
golang10
mattermost10
go10
cli10
database-management9
bash8
collaboration6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
mattermost/mattermost
Jan 2019 - Dec 2022
Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle..
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:91 reviews, 24 commits, 69 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Gabriel implemented a new CLI command "command show" to display detailed information about slash commands, enhancing the Mattermost platform's command-line interface. They refactored and moved utility functions and tests related to CLI commands to improve code organization and maintainability. The user also contributed to database health checks, ensuring the robustness of the system by integrating checks for the database and filestore. Furthermore, the user added functionality to update user passwords using password hashes, improving security.
golangsecuredevelopment-lifecyclelifecyclereact-native
mattermost/mattermost-hackathon-dec2020
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:15 reviews, 19 commits, 16 PRs in 1 month
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