Ryan Jackman

August 2021 - January 2024

Continued to develop the GreatHorn platform as well as my own skills. Took on more responsibilities becoming the SME for the frontend web dashboard.

August 2019 - August 2021

Full stack engineer working on the GreatHorn email security platform. Using React on the frontend, Python for the API and backend, and PostgreSQL for the database.

August 2018 - August 2019

I joined Symantec full-time after my previous internships to continue working on SSLV and to pickup a new project to replace the entire management UI with Angular.

Developed new features for the SSL Visibility Appliance targeting physical and virtual platforms

Architected new management & configuration UI including user session management, backend API connection, and upload/download handlers (Angular + Angular Material)

Designed and implemented new components focused on improving UX for high-priority features

Promoted modern web development practices and tooling including automatic testing, code linting, frequent security scans and package updates, and infrastructure to support a live-reload workflow with a simulated backend

Seamlessly integrated legacy pages into new UI to provide new features faster and reduce user impact

May 2018

Bachelors of Science in Computer Science – 3.3 GPA

Focus in Operating Systems and Computer Architecture

Minor in Advertising and Public Relations

July - December 2017

I joined the MyTurboTax team at the beginning of a design/technology change. Helped build the new MyTurboTax web-app using React and implemented new user flows.

Developed new MyTurboTax frontend web app from inception to launch reaching an expected 30+ million customers in 2018 (React + Redux)

Facilitated technical requirements and planning for cross-team development

Integrated and tested with upstream and downstream teams for seamless user flow

January - May 2017

This was my second time as an SLI, this time for Computer Science 2 students. I attended lab classes and assisted with taking attendance, handing out materials, and answering student questions.

I was available in the tutoring center for any students to come and receive help.

I graded student labs and projects on a weekly basis.

January 2017

I returned to Symantec for three weeks over winter break where I helped onboard new spring semester coop students and worked on minor feature development and bug fixes

August - December 2016

I attended lab classes and assisted with taking attendance, handing out materials, and answering student questions.

I was available in the tutoring center for any students to come and receive help.

I graded student labs and projects on a weekly basis.

January - August 2016

This was my second internship at Symantec (Blue Coat Systems at the time). I enjoyed the work during my previous summer and was asked to return.

During this 8 month internship I worked on new features and critical bugs. I also maintained and improved existing customer tools used for working with data exports.

I enhanced an internal tool that identified third-party packages with known vulnerabilities. Jira tickets were automatically created listing the vulnerable package and which version the vulnerability was fixed in.

June - August 2015

This was my first internship after starting college. I was hired as a software engineering intern working on the SSL Visibility Appliance, a network device for inspecting encrypted traffic inside a network.

I worked on some small features and bug fixes but my main project was updating the platform code to run inside a virtual machine. This involved creating a system to provide mock data where real appliance data would be missing as well as disabling systems that could not be virtualized. Separate build targets were created for builds with virtual machine support. These VMs were primarily used as a sales demo tool.

June - August 2013

This was my second summer internship at OpenMobile. I continued my work from the previous summer and took on new responsibilities. The company had expanded and had a QA department doing much of the work I did my previous summer.

I researched potential tools for automating the manual UI testing.

I created side-by-side demo videos between the companies product and the native product.

May 2013

I took my first programming class during my Freshman year and knew thats what I wanted to do for a living. And look at me now!

I took AP Computer Science and got a 5 on the AP exam. The following year I created an independent study to continue my CS education following the defunct AP CS B curriculum.

I also took AP Calculus BC, AP US History, and AP Statistics.

July - August 2014

This was my first software engineering internship. I joined OpenMobile in the summer after my Junior year of high school.

I was responsible for much of the QA testing at this time as OpenMobile was still in early startup stages.

I worked to prep devices for demos and created a tool for remote app installation on mobile development units.