Jackson Westeen
Lead Software Engineer at Klaviyo
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJackson Westeen is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating large-scale data platforms that power security and product analytics. Based in Boston, he has led design and implementation of Iceberg and Delta Lake-based data fabrics, real-time ingestion pipelines, and S3-backed systems using Spark, Kafka, and microservices in Scala and Go. Jackson combines deep operational chops—on-call incident leadership and migrations from Chef/EC2 to Kubernetes—with product-oriented work like data labeling, hot search, and managed rules to turn telemetry into actionable insight. He has a strong background in bioinformatics and scientific data tooling from Novartis, where he worked at 100+ TB scale and mentored ML-focused interns, reflecting a knack for bridging research workflows and production engineering. Practical, hands-on, and user-focused, he excels at designing schemas, optimizing distributed systems, and keeping costs and complexity under control.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Github Skills (54)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
obogobo/musicVis
Dec 2013 - Oct 2017
Contributions:26 commits, 14 pushes in 3 years 10 months
obogobo/mbtaVis
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes in 23 days
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