Jeff Bacon

Jeff Bacon has a diverse background in software engineering and development, with experience in various companies and roles. Jeff currently works as a Software Engineer at The Pokémon Company International since 2022. Prior to that, Jeff worked at Microsoft from 2017 to 2022 as a Software Engineer II, where they designed and implemented key features for a JIT solution and ported a website to an Angular single-page application.

Before joining Microsoft, Jeff worked at TEKsystems for a brief period in 2017 as a Software Engineer II, where they developed logic to extract and verify potential secrets from source code. Jeff also contributed to the Static Analysis Results Interchange Format (SARIF) Visual Studio extension.

Jeff gained experience as a Software Developer at Xtreme Consulting Group, Inc. from 2016 to 2017 and at beqom in 2016. At Sparkhound, where they worked from 2013 to 2016, they served as a Development Consultant II. In this role, Jeff worked in an agile environment, taking on the responsibilities of a scrum master and product owner. Jeff developed applications for the oil industry using various technologies such as C#, VB, Entity Framework, ExtJS, SQL, WPF, and WinForms.

Early on in their career, Jeff had internships as a Software Developer at CGB Enterprises and Southeastern Louisiana University in 2013. Jeff utilized languages and frameworks like C#, VB, WPF, MVVM, and SQL to create applications and gain hands-on experience.

Jeff Bacon earned a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology with a focus on Computer Science from Southeastern Louisiana University, completing their studies from 2008 to 2013. In 2009 and 2010, they attended ITT Technical Institute-Saint Rose to pursue studies in Design and Visual Communications, General. Bacon also briefly attended Jones College in 2007 and 2008, although no specific degree or field of study is mentioned for this period. In addition to their formal education, Bacon obtained certifications from Microsoft in Developing ASP.NET MVC Web Applications in July 2014 and Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 in March 2014.