Jonathan Jackson
Chief Executive Officer And Co-Founder at Spark MicroGrants
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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SeniorJonathan Jackson is the co-founder and CEO of Dimagi, a social enterprise he has led since 2004 to build CommCare, a widely deployed mobile data-collection platform used in thousands of digital health projects across 80 countries. A software engineer and systems designer with 13 years of experience formalized by EECS degrees from MIT, he combines hands-on product architecture and development oversight with global business strategy and partnership building for governments and major funders. Under his leadership Dimagi has grown to 150+ staff across Cambridge, New Delhi, and Cape Town and operates as a recognized Benefit Corporation working with partners like the Gates Foundation, USAID, and the UN. Beyond Dimagi, he helps scale impact as a board member of organizations such as SimPrints and Spark MicroGrants and as an incubator member of Catalyst 2030, reflecting a consistent focus on technology-driven public health and community development. An award-winning social entrepreneur, he is known for turning complex frontline challenges into practical, scalable digital solutions that prioritize underserved users.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (16)
mobile-application10
backend10
chatbot9
commcare8
ai8
jira8
cli7
docker6
containerization6
large-language-models6
orchestration4
salesforce4
llm4
openai4
agentic3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dimagi-internal/ace
Apr 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:120 PRs, 576 pushes, 293 branches in 3 months
jjackson/commcare-connect
Jul 2025 - May 2026
Contributions:19 reviews, 2 PRs, 119 pushes in 9 months
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