# Jackson Proudfoot

> Software Engineer at XR Trading

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jacksonproudfoot

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ XR Trading
Jan 2023 – Present

### Teaching Assistant @ Duke University
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Durham, North Carolina, United States
Teaching assistant for Electrical and Computer Engineering 350: Digital Systems.
• Designed and built tool for deploying automated tests for grading student's submissions on Gradescope.

### Software Engineer @ END-Labs
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023

### Full Stack Engineering Intern Lead @ IBM
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area
• Led team of interns on Enterprise Performance Management team
• Deployed Jaeger distributed tracing platform for critical microservices

### Full Stack Engineering Intern @ IBM
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
• Designed and implemented migration of Continuous Delivery (CD) toolchain from Jenkins to Tekton for the Enterprise Performance Management team.
• Wrote additional tooling on top of Tekton in bash and python to increase automation and reduce developer cost.
• Regularly met with project stakeholders to ensure satisfaction of all business and technical needs.
• Continuously practiced regular agile methodologies including social contracts, daily standup, and retrospectives.
• Collaborated with core Tekton development team and attended regular meetings with lead developers.

### Undergraduate Researcher @ Duke University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
• Work on the Tech+Check Project to train and deploy state-of-the-art natural language processing models for matching political claims to fact checked statements.
• Explored new ways for clustering small data sets for further fine tuning of state of the art models.
• Presented research to non-technical stakeholders on the school's board of trustees.

### Electrical and Software Engineer @ Duke Electric Vehicles (DEV)
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020
• Implemented electrical systems for world record holding electric vehicle.
• Designed software systems for power efficient steering and speed control.


## Education
### Master of Engineering - MEng in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Duke University

### Bachelor of Science in Engineering - BSE in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science
Duke University

### High School in High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates
The Pingry School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jacksonproudfoot

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Last updated: 2026-04-10