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Jackson Goode

Engineer in Tokyo, Japan

I'm an engineer with expertise in audio programming, data analytics, live media systems, and HCI. Master's graduate from the University of Oslo focused on communications technology and its intersection with audio.

Interested in how technology can offer new affordances. Currently working as an engineer at tonari.

Experience

Engineer ยท tonari

March, 2025 โ†’ Active
Tokyo, Japan
Helping make portals that feel like teleportation
  • More to come!

Principal Engineer ยท nLine

Oct, 2021 โ†’ Feb, 2023 (3 years 5 months)
Remote (Berkeley, California, USA)
Architected and implemented data pipelines for real-time monitoring of electrical grid reliability across Sub-Saharan Africa.
  • Developed and maintained infrastructure for real-time data monitoring, processing massive, real-time datasets from thousands of sensors in Spark
  • Designed and implemented custom Grafana plugins and deployed dashboards as code across multiple country deployments using Terraform
  • Architected a comprehensive library for distributed data processing, AST validation, and analysis in PySpark, enabling scalable ingestion, processing, and visualization of grid reliability data
  • Co-designed and maintain company blog and website with modern web development frameworks

Graduate Researcher ยท University of Oslo (UiO)

Sept, 2019 โ†’ May, 2021 (1 year 9 months)
Oslo, Norway
Led software development for various academic projects.
  • Developed Python analysis toolkit for academic journal metadata extraction and analysis
  • Assisted in archival and analysis of musical composition recordings
  • Built React website for music technology guides and resources
  • Maintained official blog for master's program

Data Analyst ยท Exactly Business Data

Aug, 2018 โ†’ May, 2019 (10 months)
Pasadena, CA, USA
Involved in retrieval and analysis of corporate and lead data, and improving in-house software.
  • Retrieved, compiled, and enriched corporate data for clients' marketing teams
  • Developed Python scripts for batch data enrichment
  • Designed UI for programs, product forms, and marketing material
  • Assisted in implementing marketing strategies for seed-round funding campaign

Education

MPhil - Music, Communication, and Technology

University of Oslo ยท September, 2019 - May, 2021
Oslo, Norway

BA - Cognitive Science, Neuroscience

Occidental College ยท August, 2014 - December, 2017
Los Angeles, CA

Selected Projects

Cacophony

Python, Multi-channel routing, FFmpeg

Developed an immersive sound installation for Sound Pedro 2024, exploring the overwhelming nature of consumptive media platforms. Created a real-time, multi-channel audio system that streams in random clips from YouTube videos in real-time.

Meet in Space

JavaScript, React, WebRTC

A deployment of binaural, spatial audio in Jitsi Meet, an enterprise-level conferencing platform. My master's thesis project for MCT at the University of Oslo.

Soniweb

Pure Data & Python

Sonification of web packet origins in real-time through Pure Data and Python

NIME Proceedings Analyzer

Python

A toolkit for bibliometric meta-data extraction and text analysis over 20 years of an academic journal