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Jack McCown

Pound Ridge,NY

Summary

Creative Senior Software Engineer offering 8 years of experience. Enthusiastic about collaborating to develop forward-thinking solutions to tomorrow's productivity problems. Resourceful and adaptable approach to challenges.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Software Engineer

CB Insights
06.2019 - 09.2023
  • I collaborated with other engineers to evaluate and improve shared libraries, in my role on the platform engineering team.
  • Core contributer part of a 4-person team which worked on seamlessly migrating our login system to SSO.
  • After CB Insights acquired Blockdata, a crypto monitoring site, I quickly got familiar with an entirely new website stack to assist in making updates and debugging issues for the research team.
  • Identified and implemented SolidFrameworks for generating downloadable PPTs for our client facing presentation generator.
  • Acted as a valued source of quick advice for my peers on other teams.
  • Onboarded all new developers to our frontend repos.
  • Lead the bi-weekly "Frontend Dev" meeting.
  • Asked to join the Software Architecture Group, composed of engineering leadership, management, and a few key developers.

Feature Engineer (SEII)

CB Insights
01.2018 - 06.2019
  • Spearheaded a feature to use a bin-packing algorithm for automatically generating market-maps.
  • Wrote, reviewed and edited technical document in accordance with template requirements.
  • Developed cost estimates and project specifications for proposals.
  • Lead a cross-team effort to get prettier formatting checks in CI, with minimal disruption/conflicts to existing work.

Software Development Engineer in Test

CB Insights
06.2016 - 12.2018
  • Wrote and monitored automated test cases using python with selenium webdriver for end-to-end testing.
  • Developed a workflow for capturing video output from tests in our CI environment to assist in debugging and identifying false positive errors on tests running in CI.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Psychology

Colgate University
Hamilton, NY
05.2015

Skills

  • Typescript
  • Python
  • Gitlab CI
  • Agile Practices
  • Shell/Scripting Languages
  • emacs
  • Maintenance and troubleshooting
  • Developer collaboration

Timeline

Senior Software Engineer

CB Insights
06.2019 - 09.2023

Feature Engineer (SEII)

CB Insights
01.2018 - 06.2019

Software Development Engineer in Test

CB Insights
06.2016 - 12.2018

Bachelor of Arts - Psychology

Colgate University

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