Cristen Jones
Technical Lead at MBTA
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCristen Jones is a Technical Lead with 12 years of experience who leads engineering for mbta.com, blending an Elixir backend, React frontend, Drupal CMS, MBTA APIs, and AWS infrastructure into a cohesive public-facing platform. A self-taught software engineer with a formal background in architecture, art & design and urban/regional planning from MIT and Cornell, Cristen brings a user-centered, systems-thinking approach to full-stack development. Their career spans design-heavy roles and data visualization work at MITRE, giving them a rare mix of visual design sensibility and backend engineering rigor. Based in Durham, NC, they specialize in production web systems that serve complex civic users and transit data, and are comfortable operating across API design, CMS integration, and cloud operations. An interest in spatial and urban systems runs through their work, informing pragmatic decisions about data, UX, and reliability for high-traffic civic services.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Art and Design, Building technology + Minor in Urban Planning, Bachelor of Science in Art and Design, Building technology + Minor in Urban Planning at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster in Regional Planning, City & Regional Planning, Master in Regional Planning, City & Regional Planning at Cornell University
Github Skills (200)
testing10
javascript-framework10
html10
quality-assurance10
json-api10
axe10
css10
nunjucks10
visual-regression-testing10
eleventy10
responsive10
zero-configuration10
javascript10
mobile-first10
react10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
thecristen/dotcom
May 2021 - Jun 2022
mbta.com
Contributions:1 review, 71 PRs, 236 pushes in 1 year 1 month
mbta
thecristen/open_trip_planner_client
Feb 2024 - Nov 2024
A few shared functions to make requests to a running OpenTripPlanner instance.
Contributions:2 releases, 5 reviews, 1 PR in 9 months
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