Arelia Jones
Software Engineer III at GitHub
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolArelia Jones is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience who currently builds education-focused developer tools on GitHub’s Education team. She blends hands-on engineering with program and community leadership, having progressed from developer program roles into Software Engineer III while designing products that benefit teachers, students, and schools. As co-founder and former director of education and technology at CoderSpace, she has a proven track record of creating web development pathways for high school students on Chicago’s South Side. Arelia also co-organized inclusive tech initiatives like PromptConf and BlackByte and led the Chicago chapter of Girl Develop It, demonstrating a long-standing commitment to widening participation in tech. Her work has been recognized by Crain’s Tech 50 and Chicago Inno’s 50 on Fire, reflecting impact beyond code into community building. She pairs an MBA-backed business perspective with a lifelong passion for the web and inclusive education, often standing at the intersection of product, pedagogy, and engineering.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Marketing Communication International Business Management, MBA Marketing Communication International Business Management at Washington University in St. Louis - Olin Business SchoolSpanish Journalism, Spanish Journalism at Washington University in St. Louis
English, Spanish, French, Italian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (81)
campus10
x-plane10
pluralsight10
meta10
javascript9
java-bytecode9
shortcut9
bem9
shortcuts9
eslint-config9
asp-net-mvc9
taco9
eslint-plugin9
browserstack9
eslint9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
arelia/arelia
Jun 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
CoderSpace/CoderSpace2015
Nov 2015 - Aug 2021
Site For CoderSpace
Contributions:4 PRs, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 10 months
javascript
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