Jackson Hong
Staff Software Engineer at StackAdapt
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJackson Hong is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable backend systems and developer tools, currently based in Old Toronto. He has a strong track record at Shopify—rising from individual contributor to development manager—and now drives engineering at StackAdapt. His work spans large-scale scraping and data pipelines, complex React/Django stacks, and reliability-focused improvements in open-source projects like the JS-to-WebAssembly Javy toolchain. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he routinely improves test suites, fixes subtle runtime bugs (e.g., stdout flushing) and adds features that make tooling more interoperable such as JSON→msgpack transcoding. Always learning, he pairs hands-on coding with operational sense to ship robust systems that downstream consumers can depend on.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at University of Toronto
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
139reputation
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6answers
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Github Skills (23)
testing10
shopify-cli10
ruby10
minitest10
wasmtime10
webassembly10
rust10
messagepack10
json9
serde9
build-tools8
cli8
github-ci7
githubaction-workflow7
react-router6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bytecodealliance/javy
Feb 2022 - Apr 2022
JS to WebAssembly toolchain
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 56 reviews, 34 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jackson primarily worked on improving the functionality and stability of the Javy toolchain. Their contributions include fixing tests, formatting code, and addressing warnings. The user also implemented features such as direct transcoding from JSON to msgpack, and modifying console logging to write to stderr for improved compatibility with downstream parsing. Additionally, the user addressed a bug related to stdout flushing.
jstoolchainwebassembly
Shopify/shopify-cli
Nov 2021 - Jun 2022
Shopify CLI helps you build against the Shopify platform faster.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 19 commits, 7 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Jackson primarily focused on testing and test-related improvements within the Shopify CLI project. Their work involved modifying test files, updating test configurations, and bumping the versions of dependencies used by the testing framework. This included adjusting test cases to accommodate changes in the underlying libraries and ensuring the reliability of automated tests. They also corrected asset download links and updated version numbers within the test suite.
shopifyshopify-cli
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