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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 a programmable middle-box for packet processing.
  • Built a workflow enabling operators to seamlessly migrate a customer's packet processing to a different cell with zero downtime, including automated integrity checking.
  • Served as on-call engineer, resolving customer-impacting issues at all hours.
Lead Solutions Engineer/New Light Technologies/ Sep 2022 – Jun 2023
  • Built an AI-based web scraper that uses natural language prompts to extract precise data from heterogenous websites.
  • 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 AWS accounts by enforcing consistent organization-level policies and migrating to temporary security credentials in a majority of our applications.
DevOps Engineer/New Light Technologies/ Sep 2020 – Aug 2022
  • 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.
  • Built a novel spatial authentication system for the US Army Corps of Engineers, integrating with Login.gov via OIDC and supporting PIV-based login.
Software Engineer Intern/Amazon Web Services/ May 2022 – Aug 2022
  • Developed a tool to detect anomalies in internal network configurations.
Independent Tutor/Wyzant/ Jan 2020 – Dec 2020
  • Taught Python, SQL, and Java to students ranging from middle school to university levels.

Education

University of North Texas/ B.S. Computer Science / Aug 2020 – May 2023
  • 4.0 GPA – graduated summa cum laude.

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.