Jackson Hardaker
Founding Engineer at bitdrift
City of Beacon, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJackson Hardaker is a Founding Engineer and front-end specialist with 11 years of experience building performant, scalable ecommerce platforms and design systems, now based in Beacon, New York. He’s shipped high-impact improvements at companies like Tuft & Needle and Lyft—optimizing checkout performance, introducing TypeScript and monorepo patterns, and halving deployment times to speed developer iteration. A former professional jazz trombonist and composer, he brings a creative, collaborative mindset to engineering and mentorship, focused on hands-on coaching and leaving systems better than he found them. He excels at translating product and marketing needs into composable tooling and automated workflows that reduce engineering toil. As a founder at bitdrift, he continues to blend system design, modern front-end feature sets, and pragmatic QA-first practices to be a force multiplier for teams. Notably, his background in music production informs an unusual attention to craft, iteration, and orchestration across complex codebases.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Music, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Music at University of CanterburyMaster’s Degree Music, Master’s Degree Music at Queens College
English
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Github Skills (39)
javascript10
static-site-generator10
typescript10
nextjs10
browser10
airtable10
compiler10
whiteboard10
react10
hybrid10
wai-aria9
storybook9
ui-components9
visualization9
jquery9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jacksonhardaker/next.js
Aug 2020 - Jun 2022
The React Framework
Contributions:24 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
reactjavascriptframeworkstorybookreact-framework
jacksonhardaker/renovation
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:115 commits, 82 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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