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My name is Jarrod Jackson and I am a software engineer living in Portland, Oregon. I have been playing with computers ever since I bought my first, a 486 DX 33 with 4 MB of RAM, with the money I made working as a ranch hand in the summer of 1993. In 2003 I started working for an e-commerce company in Cannon Beach, Oregon, and during the years that followed I have enjoyed working with researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), NASA, and Oregon State University in fields ranging from adaptive optical electronics, end user software engineering, and VLSI circuit design.
I have had the privilege of being mentored (chronologically) by Dr. Ron Thom (PNNL), Dr. Natalie Grant (NASA), Patrick Chiang (OSU), Dr. Margaret Burnett (OSU), and Dr. Chris Scaffidi (OSU). My professional publications include a paper on the autonomous analysis of web automation programs in public repositories, a paper on characterizing the performance of sub-threshold digital circuits, and a presentation on using a microcontroller to drive an optoelectronic sensor array.
I earned an Associate's Degree in Pre-Engineering from Clatsop Community College, transferring to OSU as a pre-engineering student interested in both Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science. My coursework at OSU, coupled with my internships and employment as an undergraduate researcher, gave me experience creating technological solutions that required engineering transistor-level circuits to designing machine learning innovations.
My professional experience consists of architecting enterprise-scale codebases, developing application programming interfaces, and leveraging machine learning/data mining technologies for e-commerce businesses and big data startups.
I am a board/video game aficionado, avid reader, music lover, and certified advanced open water diver. I am fluent in English, Spanish, Python, C, and a few assembly languages (AVR, PIC, MIPS).