Hayden Jackson
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolHayden Jackson is a Senior Software Engineer based in Vancouver with a decade of experience building productivity and web-platform features at Microsoft, progressing from intern to senior engineer on Office Online tooling. He combines a strong academic foundation—a Master's in Computer Science and a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science—with hands-on experience across backend and frontend stacks from early internships to production services. Hayden has repeatedly taken roles that blend developer tooling, research-driven problem solving, and collaboration with industry and academia, reflecting both technical depth and a mentor mindset. He’s motivated by work that has real-world impact and looks for employers who treat engineers as long-term investments, a perspective shaped by leading academic programs and organizing industry-university partnerships.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
NCEA Level 3, NCEA Level 3 at Timaru Boys' High SchoolMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at University of Canterbury
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Github Skills (21)
textbook10
django10
python-markdown9
javascript9
markdown9
fundamentals9
python9
science9
computer-science9
html9
out-of-process7
azure-functions4
css4
csharp4
dotnet4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
uccser/verto
Feb 2017 - Sep 2017
Verto is an extension of the Python Markdown package, which allows authors to include complex HTML elements with simple text tags in their Markdown files.
Contributions:10 releases, 506 commits, 142 PRs in 7 months
pythonpython-markdownvertoelementspython-3
uccser/render
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 24 pushes, 3 branches in 23 days
renderunpluggedpdfrender-servicefield-guide
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