Keiwynn Tara Parker-Jackson

I am a software developer and linguist who is always learning new things about languages, computers, and everything else there is to know.

email

keiwynn@kechpaja.com

website

https://kechpaja.com

Education

M.A.

University of Turku, Finnish and Other Finno-Ugric Languages (2020)

A.B.

Brown University, Linguistics and Computer Science (2014)

Work History

Gofore, Software Developer

March 2021 - May 2025

Performed full stack development work for five different clients, including building large sections of several projects from scratch, modernizing existing codebases, and optimizing both front and back end code. Improved SQL query speed by a factor of four to seven for one client.

Influensseri, Founder (Technology and Operations)

March 2020 - October 2021

Developed a ReactJS and Firebase app for connecting social media influencers with brands; handled organizational tasks on the business side; fielded bug reports from customers.

Microsoft, Software Engineer

August 2014 - July 2016

Improved encapsulation and readability of C#, JavaScript, HTML and CSS codebase; added RESTful endpoints and test automation.

Languages

Fluent

English (native), Finnish, German

Intermediate

Esperanto, Hungarian, Russian

Keywords and Technologies Not Mentioned Elsewhere

AWS, Azure, C, CI/CD, Clojure, Django, Java, Kotlin, Linux, Python, TypeScript, WordPress