Jamaal Scarlett
Principal Software Engineer Lead at Fortra
Gainesville, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolJamaal Scarlett is a Principal Software Engineer Lead with 11 years of professional experience building reliable backend systems and leading engineering teams from Gainesville, Florida. He has progressed through senior technical roles at Tripwire and Fortra, now guiding architecture and delivery as a principal lead since 2024. Known for pragmatic backend work, he contributed to the popular open-source django-push-notifications project by improving GCM/FCM error handling and Django admin usability, enhancing reliability for mobile notification flows. Jamaal pairs hands-on coding with team mentorship, focusing on production robustness, device management workflows, and admin-facing tooling that reduces operational friction. His background in computer engineering informs a systems-minded approach to designing maintainable, observable services.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering at DeVry University-GeorgiaArchbishop Denis O'Connor Catholic High School
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Github Skills (20)
python10
django10
apple-push-notifications10
push-notifications10
error-handling10
fc10
cm10
rest-api8
api-rest8
testing8
restful-api8
api-design8
database-api7
databases7
database7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jazzband/django-push-notifications
Jun 2015 - Jun 2022
Send push notifications to mobile devices through GCM or APNS in Django.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 29 reviews, 25 commits in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jamaal primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the Django-based push notification system. Their work involved implementing error handling and device management within the GCM and FCM notification flows. Key changes included modifying the behavior of error responses from Google services and enhancing the Django admin interface for better device representation and bulk message sending. These changes improved the reliability and usability of the notification service.
pythonpushdjangoapnspush-notifications
jamaalscarlett/django-push-notifications
Jun 2015 - Apr 2024
Send push notifications to mobile devices through GCM or APNS in Django.
Contributions:153 pushes, 73 branches, 6 comments in 9 years
pythonpushdjangoapnspush-notifications
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