Jacqueline Gutman is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building data-driven products and developer tooling, currently leading engineering efforts at Komodo Health in New York. She blends a strong data science foundation (MS, NYU) and cognitive science background with hands-on backend engineering across healthcare and analytics companies like Posit, Flatiron, and NYU Langone. Jacqueline contributes to prominent open-source projects such as RStudio, improving R Markdown and Quarto parsing and tooling—an indication of her attention to developer experience and complex parsing edge cases. She has progressed from data scientist roles into senior engineering and staff positions, consistently shipping robust backend features that bridge analytics and production systems. Known for tackling subtle bugs (multi-line Python chunks, file path resolution) and improving project settings and user preferences, she brings both domain expertise and pragmatic product sensibility to engineering teams.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Data Science, M.S. Data Science at New York University
B.S. Brain & Cognitive Sciences, B.S. Brain & Cognitive Sciences at University of Rochester
RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:396 reviews, 507 commits, 266 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Jacqueline primarily focused on improving the RStudio IDE, particularly its R Markdown and Quarto support. Contributions included adding features for handling and parsing chunk options in various styles, addressing multi-line/blank lines in Python chunks, and fixing issues with file path resolution and website building. Additionally, they modified code related to project settings and user preferences for various features.
Contributions:308 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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Jacqueline Gutman - Senior Software Engineer at Komodo Health