Summary
Jack Whalen is a software engineering leader with 10 years' experience, currently leading the Software Privacy BI team at Meta and blending hands-on Java/Python development with BI and privacy-focused delivery. He has a strong backend and DevOps pedigree—refactoring and dockerizing legacy systems, administering 37 enterprise Ubuntu servers, and improving performance and uptime across global teams. Jack pairs traditional web skills (raw HTML/CSS, WordPress, PHP) with data and ML work, having trained AI pair-programmers and designed intentionally flawed datasets to teach models to detect and fix bugs. Comfortable in international agile teams, he leverages a broad toolset (Spring Boot, JDBC/Oracle SQL, Docker, AWS, git/Perforce, Jira) to ship reliable systems at scale. Outside work he’s an avid photographer—his cover photo atop Mauna Kea hints at a curiosity-driven perspective he brings to technical problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at DePaul University
Oakton College