Jacquese Wilson

Product: Catch A Captain — On-demand boating marketplace, live iOS & Android (South Florida)

• Joined as the first and founding engineer, taking full ownership of architecture, backend, mobile, and infrastructure from day one through production launch on both iOS App Store and Google Play.
• Designed and implemented a Flutter mobile application (Dart) supporting dual user personas — passengers booking trips and captains managing listings — with real-time GPS voyage tracking.
• Engineered GCP cloud infrastructure: Firestore for real-time data sync, Firebase Authentication, and Cloud Functions using a MEAN/GGRM stack with encrypted communication and role-based security rules.
• Built a custom Go Fiber microservice integrating Google Document AI for automated verification of captain maritime licences and identification documents, surfaced via a purpose-built GUI dashboard.
• Integrated Stripe for end-to-end payment flows: passenger checkout with multiple payment methods and captain onboarding for payout accounts within the mobile app.
• Established CI/CD workflows for continuous delivery to both iOS (Xcode) and Android (Gradle) platforms; authored internal engineering standards and mentored junior developers.

• Served as technical liaison between end customers and internal development teams, channelling bug reports, feature requests, and escalations to the correct engineering squads.
• Delivered high-quality support across phone, email, and live chat channels maintaining empathy and professionalism under high-volume conditions.
• Managed customer records, issue tracking, and resolution workflows via CRM software, reducing mean resolution time.

• Developed enterprise APIs and full-stack applications using the Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Spring MVC).
• Designed and executed API test suites with JUnit, Rest-Assured, and Selenium following industry best practices.
• Provisioned and managed MySQL databases on AWS; built Spring Data repositories for data access, connection pooling, and schema migrations.
• Developed a Java/Selenium web-scraper API using the Page Object Model pattern to automate data gathering and form submission workflows.

• Translated business requirements into technical solutions within a PaaS environment on Microsoft Azure, delivering features across a regulated surgical recording product suite.
• Designed and shipped two new mobile UI features for devices used in operating-room environments, adhering to strict reliability and usability standards.
• Performed code reviews and enforced quality gates before production and integration-branch merges.
• Authored and managed 10+ user stories via Azure DevOps, Azure Project, and Microsoft Teams, coordinating delivery across cross-functional squads.
• Developed features across a common infrastructure using C#, .NET, Golang, React, Vue, Kotlin, and MongoDB.

• Managed 2 million+ cardholder accounts within the enterprise financial platform, ensuring data integrity, compliance, and quality of service at scale.
• Automated repetitive processes and reduced department-level technical debt by over 40% through targeted CI/CD pipeline improvements and tooling enhancements.
• Led cross-timezone incident management initiatives, coordinating global support teams and executive stakeholders during critical system events.
• Built Splunk observability dashboards using Regex to cross-reference and query large-scale ecosystem data, accelerating root-cause identification.
• Wrote, tested, and reviewed production code in Java, Python, Golang, Selenium, Jenkins, and Rest-Assured; managed team delivery of enterprise Python/Flask applications.

• Supported customers in building and optimising web presences for business and personal use, applying knowledge of HTML, SEO, and Wix platform internals.
• Gathered product usage data via Tableau; created presentations translating insights into actionable product and education improvements.
• Documented product defects in JIRA and collaborated across HR and product teams to drive community education programmes.

• Built enterprise-level applications using Java and Spring MVC; created RESTful services exposed via JavaScript and Vue.js front-ends.
• Developed Spring Batch jobs to parse flat-file, XML, and JSON data into relational (SQL) and non-relational (Cassandra, MongoDB) databases.
• Followed strict TDD practices throughout: JUnit, Selenium, REGEX, and XPATH for comprehensive test coverage.
• Built front-end UIs using Bootstrap, HTML, and JavaScript; participated in peer code reviews tracked in JIRA.

• Founded SWRTHY LLC as a mission-driven, minority-owned technology parent company operating on the principle of "Worthy Over Cheap" — building software with long-term community impact over short-term profit.
• Leading product roadmap, technical direction, partnerships, and fundraising across two active software products and three planned ventures.
• Established company mission, core beliefs, brand identity, and public-facing web presence at queseGen.github.io/swrthy.

Community Food Rescue Mobile Application

• Designed and built a Flutter mobile platform connecting restaurants with nearby community members to reduce food waste — restaurants post surplus food, customers claim and collect with a unique pickup code.
• Deployed backend to Google Cloud (Blaze) with Firebase Auth, rate limiting, and secure token management.
• Completed MVP Core: full browse/post/claim food pipeline, GPS/location services, pickup-code flow, confirm-pickup, and persistent auto-login — end-to-end on both frontend and backend.