Jackson Davis
Backend Developer at Databricks Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJackson Davis is a backend developer in San Francisco with a decade of experience building high-performance infrastructure, tooling, and developer productivity systems. He has led protobuf ownership and API/RPC improvements at Databricks, introduced language support and JSON serde optimizations, and recently architected rate limiting and core endpoint performance gains as a contractor. His background spans large-scale data and distributed systems work at Foursquare, Salesforce, and early performance roles at Google, with repeated wins in throughput and resource reduction. Jackson pairs hands-on engineering with mentoring and platform hygiene—onboarding new hires and improving code review, monitoring, and incident practices. Outside core backend work he blends technical artistry and music into his craft, reflecting a creative approach to tooling and system design. He prefers direct recruiter outreach that names the company and lists contact info on his site jcdav.is.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
The Harker SchoolBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (10)
predict4
ipython3
python3
game-dev2
twitter2
notebook2
mongoose2
angular1
mongodb1
full-stack1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jacksondavis/chimr
Nov 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:5 PRs, 25 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 11 months
RevanthRameshkumar/ADSADataSummitWebsite
Nov 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:120 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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