San Francisco Software Engineer Jackson Galan reserves the right to code, so long as it’s in Emacs. After a co-worker managed to get him to understand recommender systems, he dusted off a pair of fingerless gloves, and began to fix the internet. His first gig was aptly at a startup, where he wore mostly the front-end hat (mostly), and built a social event-planning app that would scale to 10,000+ MAU. 📈 In the years since, the projects have changed, but the core technolgies have stayed the same; the methodologies remain agile, and the backends, written in JavaScript. Outside of the development environment, Jackson is an avid cyclist (same gloves!) and voracious reader. Check out the blog for news, join a bike ride (gloves: 100% mandatory), or reach out to say hello.