Jonathan Jackson
Engineering Director, Apple Functional Team at DuckDuckGo
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Jackson is an experienced engineering leader currently serving as an Engineering Director at Apple, with a track record of building and scaling cross-functional mobile and backend teams across Fitbit, Google, and earlier mobile platforms. He specializes in shipping high-quality user experiences at scale—leading the launch of Fitbit Feed to 25M+ users, driving migrations to microservices and GCP, and delivering major redesigns and identity integrations under tight constraints. Known for developing managers and engineers, he created repeatable leadership curricula ("Problems to Projects") and cross-functional practices that reduced dependencies and accelerated delivery. Jonathan combines deep hands-on iOS and telephony engineering roots with strategic product thinking, often prioritizing “do fewer things better” to maximize impact and minimize operating costs. Based in Greater Boston, he has a pragmatic history of sustaining service continuity through transitions and mentoring teams into long-term technical leaders.
1 year of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Alfred UniversityBA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at University of Rochester
English
Stackoverflow
33reputation
619reached
1answer
3questions
Github Skills (7)
duckduckgo10
privacy10
ios-application10
macos9
ios9
swift8
ganglia6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
duckduckgo/apple-browsers
Mar 2025 - Jul 2026
DuckDuckGo iOS & macOS browsers
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 4 months
iosmacosbrowsersduckduckgo
duckduckgo/macos-browser
Nov 2024 - Jan 2025
DuckDuckGo macOS Browser
Contributions:4 reviews, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 months
macos
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