Jackson Hamilton
Senior Software Engineer at Sunbound
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolJackson Hamilton is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building high-impact JavaScript applications for SaaS companies, currently driving product engineering at Sunbound. He has repeatedly turned front-end work into business outcomes—overhauling Grain’s UI to enable a freemium model that lifted ARR, and creating reusable React+TypeScript components used daily by 10k+ agents at Compass. Comfortable across the stack, Jackson has modernized build pipelines (Webpack→Vite), shipped Electron desktop apps, and optimized Rails-based CMS performance at scale. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved widely used editor tooling and JavaScript analysis projects (js2-mode, tern, epub.js), bringing editor-level insight to developer experience. Based in San Diego, he thrives on collaborative teams that build product-led technology empowering entrepreneurs and businesses.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Completed 50 credits towards a Bachelor's Computer Science, Completed 50 credits towards a Bachelor's Computer Science at MiraCosta College
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Github Skills (34)
javascript10
epub10
project-management10
css10
autocomplete10
emacs-lisp10
code-analysis10
front-end-development10
emacs10
html10
tern10
jsx10
completions10
testing9
asynchronous9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
mooz/js2-mode
Jan 2015 - Jun 2019
Improved JavaScript editing mode for GNU Emacs
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:46 commits, 19 PRs, 87 comments in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jackson primarily contributed to improving the JavaScript editing mode for Emacs, `js2-mode`. Their work included fixing bugs related to comment node lengths and scope resolution, along with adding a 'dynamic' option for multiline declarations and implementing strict mode compliance. Furthermore, the user expanded the mode by adding JSX support via `js2-jsx-mode` and refactored the existing indentation logic.
elisptext-editingimprovedgnu-emacsjavascript
auto-complete/auto-complete
Jun 2015 - Oct 2016
Emacs auto-complete package
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Jackson primarily contributed to the Emacs auto-complete package by adding support for various programming modes. They extended the auto-complete functionality by including support for languages such as SCSS, Applescript, JSX, Elixir, and CoffeeScript. The user focused on modifying the `auto-complete.el` file to incorporate new modes, enhancing the package's versatility and expanding its compatibility with different coding environments.
auto-completeemacsemacs-lspmelpacompletion
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