Jackson Mills
Freelance Software Engineer at Sole Trader
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolJackson Mills is a Melbourne-based freelance software engineer with a decade of experience building reliable back-end systems and developer-facing tooling. He has held senior engineering roles at Bueno and Flo Energy and contributed to the XRP Ledger ecosystem, improving xrpl.js and the xrpl.org developer portal with pragmatic refactors, edge-case tests, and clearer documentation. Jackson brings a practical functional-programming approach to code clarity and transaction reliability, having removed deprecated functions and added robust ledger interfaces in widely used open-source projects. Comfortable in both product teams and open-source communities, he pairs production-grade engineering with a knack for turning complex protocol details into usable examples for other developers.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Sydney
Github Skills (15)
js10
typescript10
javascript10
xrp10
typescripts10
api10
blockchain10
typescript-types10
cryptography9
documentation9
testing9
nodejs9
website-design8
cryptocurrency8
website-development8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
XRPLF/xrpl.js
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
A JavaScript/TypeScript API for interacting with the XRP Ledger in Node.js and the browser
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 releases, 954 reviews, 173 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Jackson primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the xrpl.js library, focusing on improving code clarity and functionality. Their work included adding tests for edge cases involving case-insensitive memo hexes, and refactoring combine logic using functional styles. Additionally, they updated the sign documentation with more information on keypairs. They also added ledger method interfaces and removed deprecated functions.
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XRPLF/xrpl-dev-portal
Oct 2021 - Dec 2022
Source code for xrpl.org including developer documentation
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:467 reviews, 41 commits, 31 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Jackson primarily contributed to the developer portal's documentation and code examples related to the XRP Ledger (XRPL). They focused on updating and migrating code samples, specifically those concerning individual and global freezing functionalities. The contributions included refactoring existing code, adding clarifying comments, and improving the reliability of transactions within the XRPL environment. The user's work helped to enhance the portal's educational value by providing up-to-date and practical examples.
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