Summary
Jesse Gibbons is an Application Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building, testing, and optimizing full-stack and core processing systems, currently driving performance and quality improvements at Waystar. A self-taught programmer since age 12 and a Computer Science graduate from BYU–Idaho, he combines deep debugging instincts with a passion for test-driven development and Agile practices. He has delivered measurable performance gains—reducing complex processing times by nearly 40% through refactoring, profiling, and logic simplification—while owning SQL design, unit testing, and production support. Comfortable across JavaScript, C#, Python, C++, Java, Scheme, Clojure, and bash, Jesse thrives on automating workflows and modernizing legacy systems. He mentors and tutors others in functional programming and brings a rare enthusiasm for problem-solving in existing codebases.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Brigham Young University-Idaho