Me :)

Hi, I'm Jacob Jackson

I am a student, software developer, and data systems engineer. I have experience tuning high performance databases, building apps with hundreds of thousands of views, and running a data systems & software development blog read by hundreds of thousands of engineers.

Experience

Database Engineering Intern at Cyberspatial

Sep 2025 - Present

I help optimize data ingestion and querying for for high-throughput satellite networking observability.

Technical Writer at Argot

Feb 2022 - Jan 2025

I ghostwrote opinion articles and guides for developer tooling companies and publications including the Deno blog, the Neon blog, and Torc.dev.

Projects

SATQuestionBank.org

Oct 2024 - Present

I built a testprep platform in use by over >30,000 students using a Cloudflare Workers server backed by a Postgres database with SolidStart and TailwindCSS/DaisyUI

Microdiff

Oct 2021 - Present

I built a diffing algorithm for JavaScript that outperforms all known alternatives in both compressed code size and runtime speed. It has been downloaded >23 million times on npm and is used by companies including Google, Mistral AI, and the Las Vegas Sphere.

ByteofDev

Aug 2021 - Present

I run a data systems and web development blog that has been read by >300,000 developers and has been featured by leading software publications and voices like ThePrimeagen and TLDR Web Dev.

JavaScripters

Nov 2020 - Present

I manage JavaScripters, a JavaScript Discord group with >20k members, and I am leading a team developing new software to ease the management of JavaScripters.

Want to work together?

Interested in working with me on database optimization, technical writing, or another software project? Feel free to contact me by my email [email protected]

Jacob Jackson
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