Jonathan Jackson Email & Phone Number

Paoli, PA, US

Mountain View, CA, US

• Engineering Lead of FHS’s user-facing organization (peak of ~25 engineers in 3 teams, with remote and hybrid members). Owned all FHS end-user facing product experiences in the Fitbit mobile apps and supporting backend.
• Delivered two business critical projects during delayed exit period: Google Identity support, mobile user experience rewritten with entirely new design language, UX libraries, and data layer. Additionally, added new.
• Trained and educated new team members in Warsaw and San Francisco, equipping teams to carry work forward beyond org layoff date. Ensured continuity of service and ownership, minimizing impact of layoffs on customers.
• Aligned FHS team structure for faster, more reliable delivery, matching team structure to the shape of work post-acquisition. Partnered with other FHS leads to define new team charters and align teams’ impact with both.
• Advocated for a “do fewer things better” strategy. Championed decommissioning of low-value features (considering operating costs, user, and business value), developing annual plans that aligned scope of work with.

San Francisco, California, US

• Built a new cross-functional scrum team, including software engineers and test engineers, from the ground up to build and launch Fitbit Feed, reaching more than 25 million active users in the first year.
• Lead initial engineering feasibility assessments, prototyping and explorations, build-vs-buy decisions, enabling implementation and successful on-time launch of numerous projects and new features.
• Launched some of the first microservices at Fitbit as part of company-wide effort to migrate from bare-metal to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) hosting, reducing team development cycle and deployment cadence from.
• Managed development and health of the team through periods of dramatic growth as well as company-wide attrition. Concentrated on mentoring, skill development, and career progression, while sustaining a cooperative.
• Taught “Problems to Projects” engineering leadership curriculum to hundreds of individuals over my tenure. Empowered individuals and teams with essential skills to approach ambiguous problems; writing problem.
• Created “Engineering & Design Sync” and other collaborative sessions, enabling collaborative cross-functional problem solving much earlier in product development, breaking down silos between engineering, UX, and.

San Francisco, California, US

• Established and grew Fitbit Boston’s mobile engineering team from the ground up, to a peak of 8 iOS and Android engineers across several teams. Also a member of our site leadership team, growing the Boston office to a.
• Led the design and implementation of key features, including the first GPS-based Mobile Run Tracking and Reminders to Move, plus major updates to Exercise Logging and Food and Water Logging.
• Championed cross-functional “feature teams” as an organizational strategy, moving Fitbit away from previous per-platform org structure, and significantly reducing cross-team dependency, communication, and coordination.

Independent software engineer with a focus on mobile software, especially iOS. I provide engineering services to clients on a contract basis, as well as developing my own products. Customers include Gravity Mobile, Inc. (now Gracenote), and Fitbit, Inc.

Cupertino, California, US

• Delivered iOS support for CDMA messaging technologies: 3GPP2 SMS (C.S0015 and related specifications) and MMS (3GPP TS 23.140 and related specifications), a critical part of Apple’s first CDMA iPhone launch.
• Primary engineer responsible for design, implementation, and delivery of OMA Device Management (OMA-TS-DM specifications v1.2.1) solution iOS devices, enabling sale of iOS devices on Sprint’s network.
• Selected as a member of Apple’s early Voice over LTE (VoLTE) team, required for iOS LTE network support.

• Led a team of up to 8 members to bring our INQ Mobile Facebook application to additional devices, and developed a new Twitter client for the same target devices.
• Role required constant collaboration with all of INQ’s teams including regular international travel to work on site to resolve critical issues, discuss application and platform design challenges, and plan future work.

• Technical Lead for small project teams (2-5 members) through complete product development life cycles with client companies including Motorola, Samsung, MediaFLO Technologies, and INQ Mobile, local and international.

• Developed mobile applications in C for Qualcomm’s BREW platform. Assisted with the architecture and initial implementation of an integration API set for rocket Mobile’s Messaging and Tools applications.
• Led efforts to integrate Rocket Mobile Messaging and Tools applications with OEM device platforms. Maintained and developed additions to a set of integration layer APIs that allowed close interaction between our.

Ba, Computer Science

Computer Science