Samuel Jackson
Software Engineer at Brex
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Jackson is a software engineer with a decade of coding experience and over six years of professional practice, currently building scalable systems at Brex out of Seattle. He has a proven track record at both startups and large tech—migrating legacy Node.js services to Go, designing APIs for 100k+ mobile devices, and launching a multi-disciplinary pilot involving hardware sensors to production readiness in two months. Comfortable across back-end, cloud, and distributed systems, he leverages Go, Node.js, AWS, Kubernetes, and TimescaleDB to deliver reliable, testable platforms. Samuel pairs pragmatic architecture with strong cross-team collaboration and documentation habits that reduce bus factor and speed integrations. He also brings a multidisciplinary academic background in electrical engineering and Chinese studies, which contributes to a systems-oriented, globally aware perspective. Known for quietly owning legacy systems and improving engineering processes, he blends hands-on implementation with mentoring to raise team velocity and quality.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Chinese Studies, Bachelor of Arts - BA Chinese Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Github Skills (22)
folding10
emacs-lisp9
code-folding9
emacs9
vim9
file-explorer8
emacs-lsp8
melpa8
tree-sitter8
binaries7
administration7
cli7
command-line-tool7
mode-line6
elisp6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
samrjack/CharacterStrokeCount
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:30 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 28 days
samrjack/RCFiles
Oct 2018 - Oct 2024
Contributions:433 pushes, 6 branches in 6 years
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