# Chris Jackson

> Staff Software Engineer at Box

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/chrisjackson

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Box
Jan 2021 – Present | Redwood City, California, United States
Joining Box along with the rest of the SignRequest team to bring Box Sign to market.

### Software Engineer @ SignRequest
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Amsterdam, Netherlands

### Technical Co-founder @ Wondermile
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Boston, MA
As a startup focused on surfacing a curated selection of nearby fashion deals, I led the engineering efforts to build a complete product beginning with a web-based prototype to eventually a full featured iOS app. Utilizing Elixir, React, and GraphQL, I architected and built the entire API used to power the iOS app, an easy to use admin interface, and a scraper to pull in real-time inventory data from nearly twenty major retailers.

### Contract Engineer @ Union & Fifth
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, CA
When Union & Fifth, a non-profit based in San Francisco, purchased the Fashion Project platform, I led the transition from their existing platform to the new one. In the process of a full redesign, I rewrote the entire shopping experience in React.

### Contract Engineer @ Cinch Financial
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Boston, MA
Working with Cinch Financial, a Boston based fin-tech startup, I led the efforts of upgrading their large front-end application from Ember 1.8 to Ember 2, while transitioning from CoffeeScript to ES6 modules and completing a major code refactor.

### Vice President of Engineering @ Fashion Project
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Boston, MA
As a founding member of the engineering team, I architected and built the e-commerce shopping and donation experience which handled over 35,000 orders and facilitated the donation of over 350,000 items. As a member of the executive team, I helped lead the company through rapid growth from TechStars through Series A, three employees to more than sixty, and revenue from zero to several million dollars annually.

### Software Engineer @ High Street Partners
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Billercia, MA
Worked on customer facing business applications.  Applications included Expense Reporting, Payroll, and Human Resource Management.

### Software Engineer @ Jenzabar
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
Helped develop a new learning management system from the ground up.

### Application Development Lead @ Fpweb.net
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010
Built a talented team of developers that helped the company combine multiple discrete systems into a single customer management system that served as a one stop shop for customer information.  Led the efforts in choosing and implementing a new billing system.

### Team Lead @ Prophecy 1
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008
Built a small team of designers and developers purposed to create logistics applications in the transportation industry.

### Web Developer @ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Jan 2004 – Jan 2007
Helped build online learning courses used throughout the entire Federal Reserve system.


## Education
### Management Information Systems
University of Missouri-Saint Louis

### Management Computer Systems
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/cjackson27
- Portfolio: http://www.fashionproject.com/

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Last updated: 2026-04-12