Summary
Glenn Jahnke is a software engineer with 15 years of experience specializing in Clojure/Clojurescript, Postgres, and web/mobile technologies, currently building systems at Arena after an eight-year tenure applying machine learning at Apple. He has a strong track record of rebuilding and modernizing products—rebuilding Urban Dictionary’s site in Clojure and its mobile app in React Native—and has built real-time messaging and Android apps from the ground up. Comfortable across the stack, Glenn blends data science and ML know-how with test-driven, pair-programming and agile practices to deliver robust, production-grade systems. Based in San Diego, he pairs deep functional-programming expertise with practical product focus, using A/B testing and data to steer feature decisions. An avid clo jurist by trade, he brings uncommon cross-platform fluency that accelerates teams migrating between backend, web, and mobile ecosystems.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at San José State University
Spanish, Japanese