Kelvin Jackson
Software Developer at Gofore
Turku Metropolitan Area Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolKelvin Jackson is a software developer with 13 years of experience who blends rigorous computer science foundations from Brown University with a Master’s focus on Uralic linguistics, pursuing projects that sit at the intersection of language and code. He has shipped production software at Microsoft and currently develops solutions at Gofore, after co-founding a startup that modernized influencer-brand workflows. Comfortable across teaching, product, and hands-on engineering roles, he brings practical startup grit together with enterprise-grade discipline. Based in the Turku metropolitan area, he’s quietly curious about language technologies and often seeks opportunities to apply linguistic insight to software problems.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Linguistics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Linguistics and Computer Science at Brown UniversityMaster of Arts - MA, Finnish and Other Finno-Ugric Languages, Master of Arts - MA, Finnish and Other Finno-Ugric Languages at Turun yliopistoPhillips Academy
English, German, Russian, Arabic, Finnish, Hungarian, klingon, Esperanto
Github Skills (47)
docker10
pixelfed10
microblogging10
webfinger10
activitypub10
mastodon10
federation10
client-library8
matrix8
text-based7
weechat7
firebase-cloud-messaging6
firebase6
sdk6
desktop6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kechpaja/pyret-compiler
Feb 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:62 commits in 3 months
kechpaja/talktomein
Sep 2018 - Jan 2021
Contributions:31 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
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