Lateef Jackson

Principal Software Engineer

2023

Venture Partner

2020

Charter Member / Investor

2019

Chief Technology Officer

2020 - 2023

As CTO, responsible for all aspects of technology ranging from laptops to security cloud infrastructure. This involves the management of both employees and contractors who are involved in building and operating technical systems. Provide technical leadership for engineering and product development teams. - Provide guidance, mentorship, and career development for a team of software engineers - Provide technical direction in projects as needed, as well as growing the technical leadership capabilities of the engineers reporting to you - Build pharmacy care management system using Go, Postgres and GCP - Build, manage integrations with US Government systems and vendors

Software Architect

2019 - 2020

Explore, understand and communicate tradeoffs between the different directions and choices available for architecture of the software systems deployed by NewRelic. - Provide technical leadership and direction for engineering team - Written and verbal communication with VP of Engineering, Engineers, Product Management, Design and stakeholders - Educate, mentor, and collaborate with engineering team - Extract critical product details from stakeholders by meeting, documenting and communicating - Design and plan major software systems and components - Responsible for the technical competency of the engineering team - Contribute to all aspects of software design and coding - Contributing and running company development meetings - Contributing to planning, design, architecture and other technical meetings - Contributing to tickets, milestones, and epics based on engagements with stakeholders

Software Engineer

2014 - 2019

Explore, understand and communicate tradeoffs between the different directions and choices available for architecture of the software systems deployed by NewRelic. - Written and verbal communication with VP of Engineering, Engineers, Product Management, Design and stakeholders - Educate, mentor, and collaborate with engineering team - Extract critical product details from stakeholders by meeting, documenting and communicating - Design and plan major software systems and components - Responsible for the technical competency of the engineering team - Contribute to all aspects of software design and coding - Contributing and running company development meetings - Contributing to planning, design, architecture and other technical meetings - Contributing to tickets, milestones, and epics based on engagements with stakeholders - Manage codebase and improving coding skills of other software engineers - Writing and maintaining code - Monitoring the technical performance of internal systems - Responding to requests from the development team - Gathering information from consumers about program functionality - Conducting development tests and writing reports

Platform Architect

2013 - 2014

Software Consulting

2008 - 2013

Build custom business workflows leveraging Google Apps. Create web API's and services using Python and Go to support large datasets and computations that exceeded the capabilities of Google App Script.

IT Consultant

2011 - 2013

Google Web Toolkit (GWT), servlets, RESTful services, RabbitMQ message queue and third party service development and integration.

CIO

2007 - 2008

- Manage IT staff to work on casual games and video advertising solutions. - Management and development of a solution for online publishers that aggregates online video and banner remnant ad inventory. - Development and growth of reward-based online games in an advergame model

Technology Advisor

2006 - 2007

- Technological and business analysis of potential website implementations for the domain name Egolf.com. Partnered with several businesses including a sports radio talk show, a training facility, golf resorts and a sports event marketing firm to create an all-inclusive golf experience. - Evaluation of the technology platform existing at a recent business acquisition (SchoolWorld). Recommendation of several changes to the website and to current business and technology practices. - Research and evaluation of the potential purchase of a company in New Zealand that manufactures biodiesel engines for public transportation systems.