# J.J. Jackson > Climate Tech Engineering Leader Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jjjackson Senior software engineer and engineering leader with 15+ years of experience building production software across energy, collaboration, and applied ML/NLP. Strong background in Python and TypeScript, API design, and system architecture. Experienced taking products from early-stage teams to enterprise-scale organizations, including post-acquisition integration work. Specialties: Python, TypeScript, SQL, Rust, Objective-C, C++, HTML, Applied Machine Learning, NLP, API Design, System Architecture, Electricity Markets, Infrastructure-As-Code ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ David Energy Jan 2021 – Present - First full-time software engineering hire; built foundational systems, tooling, and engineering culture supporting the company's growth to date - Established company-wide engineering best practices including code review processes, CI/CD pipelines, and development workflows - Introduced serverless architecture using AWS Lambda, improving scalability and reducing infrastructure overhead - Co-led a cross-functional team of 7 (PM, 4 engineers, marketing, support ops) as lead engineer on the residential product - Designed a smart charging system for residential electric vehicles, coordinating charging schedules with grid signals and customer preferences - Designed and shipped a battery-based Virtual Power Plant managing >2 MW of distributed storage, reducing customer bills by over 10 percent per month - Led migration to new tech-enabled EDI vendor, enabling automation of labor-intensive manual ops tasks ### 2023 Fellow @ Clean Energy Leadership Institute Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area The CELI Fellowship is a program that prepares climate-passionate professionals to serve effectively as clean energy leaders in their fields. https://www.cleanenergyleaders.org/2023-bay-area-fellows ### Tech Lead @ Cisco Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area - Led a team of 4 engineers integrating intelligent features into the Webex portfolio, including Webex Assistant for Rooms — deployed to thousands of enterprise conference rooms - Drove post-acquisition integration of MindMeld technology into Cisco, onboarding teams across the organization to the conversational AI platform - Developed extensibility framework empowering customers to add custom functionality for their Webex Assistant deployments - Contributed to open-sourcing the MindMeld conversational framework, making enterprise-grade NLP tooling publicly available ### Principal Software Engineer @ MindMeld, Inc Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Lead development core "MindMeld" conversational interface framework. Designed and developed data annotation interface to speed up annotated data retrieval. Worked with Fortune 500 customers to develop conversational interfaces (voice and text) for their content. ### Software Engineer @ MindMeld, Inc Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Front End Engineer @ Clinkle Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 - Brought complicated and detailed designs to life in iOS application - Implemented complex user interactions and animations. ### Support Engineer @ Ooyala Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Mountain View, CA Playback Team ### Software Engineer II @ Intermolecular Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | San Jose, CA Worked on informatics platform for planning, executing and analyzing research, touching all levels of the codebase. Built internal iOS app from scratch for tracking experiments in the lab. ### Software Engineer @ Intermolecular Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | San Jose, CA ### Residential Computing Consultant @ Stanford Residential Computing Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Energy Resources Engineering; Minor, Computer Science Stanford University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jjjacksn - Portfolio: https://jj.jack.sn --- Source: https://flows.cv/jjjackson JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jjjackson/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12