Simon Jackson
Senior Frontend Developer at Amaze Insights
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Jackson is a Senior Frontend Developer with 13 years of experience designing performant, user-focused interfaces for brands like Hilton, Domino.com, and Dell. He blends creative technologist instincts with pragmatic engineering—contributing to a patented voice-command prototyping tool at Dell and building the domino.com component library using atomic design. Simon specializes in tooling that tightens the designer-developer loop, shipping component libraries, automation, and testing practices that scale across products and thousands of sites. Comfortable across React, Vue, and embedded web stacks, he has delivered retail display systems deployed to 22,000 locations and led initiatives that cut production time in half. A perpetual tinkerer and open-source contributor, he’s refactored Python tooling for media downloaders and frequently prototypes hardware-aware solutions such as Raspberry Pi-based update systems.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design, Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design at Texas State Technical CollegeWeb Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design, Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design at Westwood College of Technology
English, French
Stackoverflow
1,838reputation
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4answers
29questions
Github Skills (14)
python10
http-request10
webscraping9
beautifulsoup7
audio6
html6
php6
javascript6
linux6
lodash6
ffmpeg6
youtube6
apache6
jquery6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
iheanyi/bandcamp-dl
May 2014 - May 2014
Simple python script to download Bandcamp albums
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 1 issue in 10 days
Contributions summary:Simon primarily focused on refactoring and improving the core functionality of the Bandcamp downloader. Their work involved moving code into functions for modularity, separating the download progress indicator from the download method, and restructuring the code by introducing a `Bandcamp` class. They also implemented the ability to download album art and updated the command-line interface using `docopt`.
downloaderpythonpython-scriptbandcampalbums
elevate-app/elevate-vg-server
Feb 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:12 releases, 1 PR, 34 pushes in 1 year 7 months
databasedatabase-manager
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