Glenn Jackman
Senior Software Developer at Pythian
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolGlenn Jackman is a senior software developer based in Ottawa with over a decade of experience building and maintaining Unix-centric systems and enterprise software. His career spans roles at Nortel, Alcatel-Lucent, HP Enterprise Services, and a long-standing senior role at Pythian, reflecting deep familiarity with large-scale, production environments. A longtime *nix enthusiast who started on Tcl and spent years in Perl, he brings pragmatic scripting and systems expertise to automation, ops, and backend tooling. Glenn combines hands-on coding with systems administration roots, making him effective at bridging development and operational concerns. Colleagues appreciate his steady experience across telecom, consulting, and managed services where reliability and maintainability are paramount.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc, B.Sc at Carleton UniversityB.A.Sc., B.A.Sc. at University of Waterloo
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (173)
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Programming languages (46)
Github contributions (5)
glennj/exercism_cli
Oct 2019 - Nov 2024
A Go based command line tool for exercism.io.
Contributions:10 pushes, 13 branches in 5 years 1 month
golangcommand-line-toolcliexercismcommand-based
exercism/jq
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Exercism exercises in jq.
Contributions:79 reviews, 86 commits, 287 PRs in 4 months
exercismjsonexercism-exercisesexercism-trackcommunity-contributions-accepted
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