Shawn Jackson
Engineering Manager at Resgrid, LLC
Reno, Nevada, United States
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Top SchoolShawn Jackson is an engineering manager and former hands-on technical lead with 15+ years of experience building cloud-native, mobile-facing platforms and SaaS products. He currently leads a mission-critical platform team at Paylocity, driving reliability, performance, and double-digit growth while mentoring engineers from new graduates to principal levels. As founder of Resgrid, he bootstrapped an open-source dispatch platform for first responders, blending product vision with scalable on-prem and cloud deployments. His background spans finance, gaming, HR/payroll and emergency services, giving him a pragmatic, cross-domain perspective on customer-focused engineering. Known for balancing technical ownership with soft-skill development, he prioritizes sustainable pace and inclusive team culture. Outside work he’s an active volunteer firefighter and EMT, which directly informs his product work for first responders.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Software Engineering, Bachelors, Software Engineering at University of PhoenixHSD, N/A, HSD, N/A at George Whittell High SchoolAssociate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.), Computer Science, Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.), Computer Science at Truckee Meadows Community CollegeN/A, Emergency Medical Services, N/A, Emergency Medical Services at Western Nevada College
English
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Github Skills (106)
dashboard10
responders10
dashboard-widget10
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location10
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cad10
dispatch10
dispatcher10
mdm10
pulseaudio10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ucswift/Dafuscator
Oct 2011 - Nov 2011
Contributions:5 commits in 26 days
Resgrid/ngxresgridlib
Jan 2022 - Feb 2023
Angular library for utilizing the Resgrid V4 API. Resgrid is a dispatch solution for first responders, businesses and industry.
Contributions:116 commits, 196 PRs, 144 pushes in 1 year 1 month
dispatchangular-libraryapiresgridresponders
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