Jackson Ristau

Develop full-stack features for systems used daily by plant operators in a regulated, safety-critical manufacturing industry, working across the full software development lifecycle—gathering requirements from end users, designing UI layouts, writing front-end and back-end code, testing, and supporting applications running in production across North American plants.

Software Developer Intern / Extern at Lear Corporation (2023-06 – 2025-08)

Develop full-stack features for systems used daily by plant operators in a regulated, safety-critical manufacturing industry, working across the full software development lifecycle—gathering requirements from end users, designing UI layouts, writing front-end and back-end code, testing, and supporting applications running in production across North American plants.

• Developed features for an ASP.NET Core reporting application with a Vue.js front end, including C# Web API endpoints and SQL Server integration, giving plant staff self-service access to data spread across plant databases.
• Modernized legacy interfaces with Vue.js, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, improving usability and cross-device accessibility through responsive design, advanced data filtering, and UI theming.
• Help build and maintain the shared C#/.NET 8/10 library foundation—UI, terminal interface, configuration, and gRPC service libraries with SSL support—underpinning every production system the team ships, including the traceability engine plants depend on for safety auditing.
• Re-engineered 250+ SQL Server stored procedures from brittle positional parameters to a JSON-based standard, improving maintainability and easing production support.
• Cut the database release process from hours to minutes by decomposing a 100,000+ line monolithic SQL Server deployment script into a modular, regenerable build system.
• Built a dependency-ordered MSBuild pipeline automating build and NuGet publish of 90+ interdependent C# projects across 19 repositories, replacing an error-prone, full-day manual process.
• Built a custom C# Git client for the 19-repository ecosystem—cross-repo branching, merging, and Bitbucket integration—cutting new-developer setup to a single operation.
• Serve as a primary technical contact for developers debugging complex SQL Server stored procedures, and work directly with non-technical plant staff to gather requirements, deliver training, and drive adoption of new tooling.
• Mentor an intern through a centralized-logging proof of concept on containerized infrastructure while contributing within an Agile/Scrum team—sprint planning, backlog refinement, and Jira ticketing across a multi-team project.

Application Development Analyst at Lear Corporation (2025-10 – Present)

Information Security Intern at Lear Corporation (2022-06 – 2022-08)

• Provided access management support for the network (10,000+ users) as an admin including password reset, authenticator troubleshooting, and other vital user administration tasks.
• Created IT Security training and information governance courses that are assigned to Lear Employees, using Articulate360.

Volunteer Coding Instructor at Code the Gap (2024-01 – 2024-04)

• Created computer science curriculum for middle school students to learn coding fundamentals in python.
• Communicated difficult concepts to middle school students with little to no experience with programming.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science – University of Minnesota (2020-08 – 2024-05)