Jackson Argo
Email: [email protected]
Work Experience
Data Engineer - Enterprise
Slack
June 2020 - Present | New York, New York
Build spark and hive etl pipelines to provide Slack customers with access to their own usage metrics. Meet with customers to help understand their metrics needs. Connect Slack’s data warehouse with secure data serving solutions such as Solr and homegrown key-value services. Collaborate between Slack’s data teams and product teams to produce the best results we can!
Software Engineer - Visibility
Slack
Sept 2017 - June 2020 | San Francisco, CA
Build and operate streaming and pub/sub data pipelines that provide visibility into slack’s infrastructure and reliably deliver data to slack’s data warehouse. Support other engineering teams by helping identify and instrument key metrics in critical subsystems. Deploy and operate distributed data systems like Kafka, Zookeeper, and Elasticsearch.
Linux Systems Administrator
Rackspace
Apr 2015 - Aug 2017 | San Antonio, TX
I work with multiple teams to provide Linux support and uptime for a wide variety of environments. My roles include responding to alerts, ensuring high availability and acceptable levels of performance and security, monitoring system performance and utilization, tracking vulnerabilities and appling appropriate patches and upgrades, and automating in troubleshooting and administration tasks.
Systems Administrator (Part Time)
Dr. Rob Woods Research Group @ University of Georgia
Jan 2012 - Apr 2015 | Athens, GA
System administrator of a network of Linux computers for computational research. Configured and maintained a centralized Bacula backup server, a bind DNS server, and multiple NFS servers. Installed and maintained a Puppet configuration management server and Puppet module development and production environments. Installed and configured Zabbix for system monitoring, and Wordpress for site-wide documentation and electronic notebooks.
Assistant Farm Manager
Argo Farm Bamboo
Jan 2008 - July 2011 | Douglasville, GA
Supervise and instruct seasonal employees. Test cultivation and harvesting methods. Provide upkeep of plants and farm equipment.
Education
University of Georgia
B.S. in Mathematics | Cumulative GPA 3.5
Aug 2011 - Dec 2014 | Athens, GA
Graduated with Honors with a B. S. in Mathematics and minors in Physics and Philosophy. Worked part-time as a Linux systems administrator for the Dr. Rob Wood’s Research Group for 3 years. Received Student Employee of the Year award in 2014. Played rugby for the UGARFC for 2 seasons. Served as UGAnime Technology officer for 1 year.
Awards and Honors
Graduation with Honors
The University of Georgia Career Center
December 2014
Graduated with a GPA between 3.50 and 3.69.
Student Employee of the Year Award
UGA Career Center
April 2014
Nominated by supervisor and chosen by selection committee as a Top 100 Student Employee of the Year from over 5000 on-campus student employees
Projects
Improve Clustering Methods
June 2012 - Apr 2015
Develop an accurate and efficient algorithm for clustering high-dimensional data relevant to the field of computational chemistry (implement the algorithm as a C library).
Model A Rat Rod
Building a 1931 Model A Rat Rod from the ground up. Fabricated brackets, brake lines, chassis components; modified and installed numerous automotive parts.