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Jackson Welsh

me@thisdomain / Seattle, WA

@jacksonwelsh//in/jacksonwelsh

Profile

Jackson Welsh is a cloud-native full-stack software engineer with excellent written and verbal communications specializing in solution engineering to meet and exceed customer requirements. Jackson has experience in both new product development and maintenance of legacy applications.

Experience

Software Engineer/Amazon Web Services/ Aug 2023 – Present
  • Engineer at EC2 VPC, building the foundation for PrivateLink, NAT Gateway, Transit Gateway, and more.
  • Designed and implemented the control plane for Custom Exception Path, enabling vendors to reduce their fleet sizes by 80%.
  • Developed a system to migrate thousands of network interfaces across cells, reducing operational risks from hot-spotting.
Lead Solutions Engineer/New Light Technologies/ Sep 2022 – Jun 2023
  • Developed an AI-based web scraper with that uses natural language prompts to extract precise data from heterogenous websites using GPT-4.
  • Built an internal components library and website creation workflow to bring new site creation time from 4 hours down to 10 minutes.
  • Streamlined management of over 50 AWS accounts by enforcing consistent organization-level policies.
  • Enhanced security by switching from manually-rotated static credentials to dynamic credentials that rotate as often as every 15 minutes.
DevOps Engineer/New Light Technologies/ Sep 2020 – Aug 2022
  • Designed, built, and deployed serverless applications to Amazon Web Services using Docker and AWS Elastic Container Service.
  • Developed a new web mapping application to replace a legacy ArcGIS plugin for address management within local governments.
  • Designed and implemented a novel spatial authentication system for the US Army Corps of Engineers, integrating with Login.gov via OpenID Connect (OIDC) and supporting PIV-based login.
Independent Tutor/Wyzant/ Jan 2020 – Dec 2020
  • Taught Python, Java, and SQL to students ranging from middle school to university levels.
  • Provided over 250 hours of tutoring with an average rating of 4.99/5.

Education

University of North Texas/ B.S. Computer Science/ 4.0 GPA

Certifications

AWS Certified Developer Associate - Credly badge
AWS Certified Security Specialty - Credly badge

Skills

Volunteering

Challenge Master, Appraiser & Tournament Volunteer/ Destination Imagination/Fall 2016 – Present
  • Volunteer at regional DI tournaments and team training events.
  • Appraiser/Challenge Master at Instant Challenge, organizing the tournament and scoring teams on creative ability and teamwork.
  • Teaching teams of elementary and middle school students on how to communicate with each other and solve problems together.