James Jackson
Head Of Engineering at Poker Power
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Jackson is a seasoned engineering leader with over two decades of experience building agile, product-focused technology organizations and delivering scalable web and adtech systems. Currently Head of Engineering at PokerPower, he has a track record of quickly aligning teams to business priorities, rearchitecting infrastructure (recently to Convex DB) and integrating complex platforms like LMS and community systems. Previously a VP of Engineering across media and adtech companies, he drove significant revenue growth, unified cloud infrastructure to save seven-figure amounts, and led large distributed teams to ship reader, marketplace and PWA products. He blends hands-on technical depth—from microservices, Kubernetes and GCP to SSO/Auth0 integrations—with a servant-leader approach that emphasizes culture, measurable outcomes and cost discipline. Outside work he runs arts and community education projects and, unsurprisingly for a PokerPower leader, lists “Poker” as his GitHub bio, hinting at a strategic, risk-aware mindset.
9 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Cornell UniversityDe Smet Jesuit High School
Github Skills (21)
kraken8
livekit6
flutter6
engine6
rendering6
webrtc5
conferencing5
sdk5
rendering-engine4
dart4
high-performance4
ffmpeg3
exoplayer3
formatting2
text-editor2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
withub-com/flutter_openim_widget
Mar 2022 - Feb 2024
Contributions:22 pushes, 3 branches, 5 tags in 1 year 10 months
Poker-J/flutter_openim_widget
Dec 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:19 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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