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.
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Experience
Engineer ยท tonari
Helping make portals that feel like teleportation
- More to come!
Principal Engineer ยท nLine
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)
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
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
BA - Cognitive Science, Neuroscience
Selected Projects
Cacophony
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
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
Sonification of web packet origins in real-time through Pure Data and Python
NIME Proceedings Analyzer
A toolkit for bibliometric meta-data extraction and text analysis over 20 years of an academic journal