Jack Slingerland
Director Of Engineering at SpotOn
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJack Slingerland is a seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of experience and a proven track record of modernizing products and scaling teams across the US and India. As Director of Engineering at SpotOn he transformed three core labor products—introducing CI/CD, containerization, and a 24-hour development cadence—that cut deployment cycles from weeks to days and unlocked new market opportunities. Previously at Citrix and Cengage he led multiple engineering teams, reduced legacy cost of ownership, and established frameworks for variable engineering investment and continuous delivery. Jack is a full‑stack technologist at heart, having shipped high‑traffic consumer sites, APIs, and migrations from Angular 1 to React while fostering strong cross‑functional collaboration. He’s as comfortable building engineering culture and mentoring talent as he is driving technical strategy and developer productivity. Based in Raleigh, he blends practical hands‑on experience with strategic leadership to turn complex product requirements into scalable, well‑operating systems.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Central Michigan University
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Github Skills (88)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
vital101/wp-site-performance-monitor
Nov 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:27 commits, 8 pushes in 4 months
vital101/plugin-update-checker
Oct 2020 - Oct 2022
A custom update checker for WordPress plugins. Useful if you don't want to host your project in the official WP repository, but would still like it to support automatic updates. Despite the name, it also works with themes.
Contributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 11 months
hostwordpress-pluginscheckerwordpressupdates
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