Jack Thompson
Senior Software Engineer at Xero
New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolJack Thompson is a Senior Software Engineer based in New Zealand with six years of hands-on experience building reliable, testable systems for resource-constrained IoT devices and backend services. He specializes in CANbus and J1939 protocols, leading work to collect and stream vehicle data at scale and serving as an in-house expert and consultant across teams. Comfortable across C/C++, Java and Python, he has driven end-to-end data pipelines, robust unit/automated testing, and performance‑optimized firmware for fleets of ~80,000 connected devices. A collaborative mentor and reviewer, Jack regularly translates technical complexity for non‑technical stakeholders and improves in-field metrics and support documentation. He brings a pragmatic focus on maintainability and self-documenting code, paired with a curiosity for new challenges that keeps him learning and shipping practical solutions.
6 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Massey UniversityOrewa College
Github Skills (5)
socketcan9
driver9
linux-kernel8
rp20401
superslim1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
jackthompsonnz/socketcan-linux-5.0
Nov 2019 - Nov 2021
Ixxat socketcan driver for Linux Kernel > 5 until they fix it
Contributions:2 reviews, 5 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 11 months
driverlinux-kernelsocketcan
labs-sandbox1/skills-build-applications-w-copilot-agent-mode-jacktnz
Nov 2025 - Nov 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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