Jackson Randle
Principal Engineer at Automattic
Hauula, Hawaii, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJackson Randle is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of experience building and leading full-stack web teams, now at Automattic after heading engineering for Day One. Trained on the job from a creative foundation in 3D animation and a Pixar internship, he blends design sensibility with deep technical ownership across front-end, mobile, server, and BI systems. He led a complete server re-architecture, a large-scale Couchbase-to-Postgres migration of hundreds of millions of records with minimal downtime, and delivered a high-performance end-to-end encrypted web app using React and IndexedDB. Comfortable shifting between hands-on engineering and people leadership, he has serially led web, Apple, Android, and server teams and focuses on empowering creative, resilient teams. He studies managerial excellence through coaching and retreats, bringing a deliberate, human-centered approach to engineering culture. Based in Hauula, Hawaii, he balances product focus with personal creative projects and family life, favoring energetic teams that encourage life beyond work.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
N/A, N/A at Experience and Self-directed StudyBachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) at Brigham Young University
Spanish, English
Github Skills (200)
atom-editor10
html-editor10
vim10
rescript10
graphql-api10
api10
trigger10
text-editing10
mongodb10
webhooks10
css10
subgraph10
wordpress-plugin10
altjs10
effector10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
mrmurphy/serbet
Dec 2019 - Apr 2022
A simple ReasonML server on top of Express.js and Node.js
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 2 years 5 months
node-jsexpresson-serverexpress-jsnodejs
splodingsocks/splodingsocks.github.io
Jul 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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