Leif Jackson

Leif Jackson has over 20 years of work experience in various roles related to software engineering and network services. Leif started their career as a Summer Network Support tech at Davidson College in 1994. Leif then went on to work as a Sr. Network Engineer at Comstar.net, where they managed and trained a team of technicians and handled the needs of numerous customers. Leif also served as the Manager of Network Services SE at Globix, where they were responsible for overseeing the South East part of a nationwide Internet backbone and developing marketing strategies. After that, they worked as a Sr. Network Engineer at WVFiber, LLC, focusing on network engineering tasks. In 2008, Leif joined Purewire, Inc. as a Software Developer, and then moved on to Barracuda Networks, where they worked as a Sr. Software Engineer in the Cloud Services Group. Currently, Leif holds the position of Principal Software Engineer / Cloud Architect at CrowdStrike, a role they have been in since 2012.

Leif Jackson attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute from 1995 to 1997, where they studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. In addition to their degree, Leif has obtained several certifications from institutions such as Emtrain and Coursera in various subjects like workplace harassment prevention, heterogeneous parallel programming, principles of reactive programming, machine learning, introduction to data science, and functional programming principles in Scala.