Russ Jackson
Principal Engineer at Sonatype
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRuss Jackson is a Principal Engineer based in St. Louis with 20+ years of hands-on coding and 11 years of focused industry experience leading teams to build secure, scalable software supply-chain solutions. At Sonatype he architected and helped deliver an innovative AI-agent integration using AWS Bedrock, API Gateway, S3, Jenkins, Java and React, and has driven numerous Nexus integration features across CI/CD ecosystems. He blends deep full‑stack Java expertise with cloud-native architecture, DevOps practices, and a history of introducing Kaizen and modern development processes to teams. His background spans enterprise eCommerce, defense, and financial systems, and includes founding a small software firm—evidence of both technical depth and entrepreneurial initiative. A former naval aviator and flight instructor turned engineer, he brings uncommon discipline and systems thinking to complex engineering problems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
20 semester hours towards MS Computer Science, 20 semester hours towards MS Computer Science at Colorado State UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at United States Naval AcademyTeacher Certification, Mathematics, Teacher Certification, Mathematics at Indiana University/Purdue University Fort Waynework towards MAT Mathematics, work towards MAT Mathematics at University of West Florida
Github Skills (69)
testing10
jenkins-plugin10
javascript10
maps10
continuous-integration10
nexus10
nexus-iq10
openlayers10
gis10
aws10
lambda9
developer-tools9
graph-database9
jenkins-api-plugin9
python9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
bigspotteddog/mini-java-maven-app
Jun 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:450 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
rjackson64840/vulnerable-java-app
May 2018 - Mar 2020
Contributions:4 PRs, 48 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 10 months
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