Jackson Blankenship
Co-Founder And Board Member at Flylance
Aledo, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJackson Blankenship is a front-end-focused software leader and co-founder with nine years of experience building production web and data platforms from startup MVPs to enterprise-grade systems. As Flylance’s former CTO and current board member he defined technical roadmaps, built distributed engineering teams, and directly translated client needs into scalable architectures across fintech and data-heavy domains. He specializes in TypeScript and React migrations, UI performance, and connecting front-end applications to complex back-end microservices and data pipelines. His hands-on work ranges from shipping React Native mobile MVPs to implementing PySpark ETL within Palantir Foundry, showing fluency across the full stack. Based in Aledo, Texas, he balances technical leadership with client-facing consulting and a practical emphasis on operational automation. Outside work he surfaces personality in code—proud husband, dog dad, and self-described “boomer sooner” who brings disciplined Midwest pragmatism to product engineering.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Oklahoma – Gallogly College of Engineering
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Github Skills (147)
variants10
authentication10
javascript10
type-inference10
laravel10
editor10
variance10
jwt10
database10
schema-validation10
sqlite10
electron10
router10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jacksonblankenship/pickem
Apr 2025 - Oct 2025
Just a hobby project--still a work in progress. Planning to launch for the 2025 NFL season.
Contributions:6 reviews, 49 PRs, 102 pushes in 6 months
jacksonblankenship/dotfiles
Feb 2023 - Mar 2026
💻 macOS dotfiles
Contributions:21 PRs, 145 pushes, 25 branches in 3 years 1 month
macosdotfiles-macosfish-shellkitty-terminal
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