Paul Jackson
Engineering Manager at Civica
Swindon, England, United Kingdom
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SeniorPaul Jackson is an Engineering Manager with 13 years' experience building and leading teams that deliver large-scale distributed and cloud-native SaaS products, primarily using Go. He combines hands-on software architecture and microservices expertise with people leadership to drive resilient, containerised systems using gRPC and modern cloud patterns. At Civica he oversees engineering delivery for cloud products while mentoring engineers on best practices for scalable service design and deployment. An active open-source contributor, he has improved documentation and backend functionality in notable projects from scientific QuTiP notebooks to the Croogo CMS, reflecting a pragmatic blend of developer experience and systems thinking. Based in Swindon, he balances technical leadership with a personal passion for motorcycling, hinting at a steady, risk-aware approach to problem solving.
14 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (21)
cms10
cakephp10
label10
python10
testing10
php10
jupyter-notebook10
documentation10
bit-manipulation9
enums9
word-wrap9
databinding9
wpf9
photonics8
uiscrollview6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
qutip/qutip-notebooks
Nov 2014 - Aug 2015
A collection of IPython notebooks using QuTiP: examples, tutorials, development test, etc.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:34 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the documentation of the QuTiP library by adding and updating tutorial notebooks. Their work involved creating and modifying examples of how to use the library, including examples for the photon birth and death in a cavity, steady state solutions, correlation functions, and more. These changes involved writing documentation and adding code to these notebooks.
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croogo/croogo
Jul 2014 - Nov 2014
A CakePHP powered Content Management System
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Paul focused on enhancing the core functionality of the Croogo CMS. Key contributions include adding a `block()` method and integrating it within the `RegionsHelper`, improving how blocks are rendered within the application. Additionally, the user updated the `BlocksEventHandler` to use the newly implemented `block()` method. Furthermore, the user added tests for the block() method and refactored the redirect functionality.
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