Phil聽Jackson
Director Of Engineering at Pitch
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorPhil Jackson is a Director of Engineering with 18 years of experience building and scaling high-throughput APIs and developer platforms across startups and large enterprises. A two-time founder (Qwerly, ApiAxle) with successful exits, he blends hands-on backend engineering in languages like Python, Ruby, Clojure and JavaScript with strong product and recruitment instincts to build high-performing teams. He has led API strategy and delivery for organisations from BBC and McAfee to RBS, turning path-finding projects into production services and hiring the teams to sustain them. At Pitch he now oversees engineering delivery while advising startups through Firestartr, keeping a practical focus on correctness, observability and automated testing. An active open-source contributor, he鈥檚 improved developer tooling and git-svn integration for the widely used Magit project, reflecting a taste for developer ergonomics as well as systems reliability. He鈥檚 equally comfortable in hands-on technical roles and in board-level strategy, and is open to roles such as CTO or technical VP where he can shape product and engineering culture.
18 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (4)
git10
emacs-lisp10
version-control9
emacs8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
magit/magit
Oct 2009 - Feb 2013
It's Magit! A Git Porcelain inside Emacs.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:371 commits, 1 comment in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Phil primarily focused on enhancing the Magit Emacs package, specifically targeting its git-svn integration and overall functionality. Their contributions included refining the git-svn way of remote fetching, enabling squashable manual merges, and providing more detailed information from git-svn repositories. They also addressed user experience by introducing a configurable completion mechanism and optimizing the display of information in the log buffer.
porcelainmagitemacsgit-porcelainemacs-lisp
apiaxle/scarf
Apr 2013 - Sep 2013
Contributions:61 commits in 5 months
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