Jacqueline Potts
Senior Software Engineer at Artsy
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJacqueline Potts is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with 11 years of experience building and scaling Rails and Django backends and shipping responsive front-end features with React and TypeScript. She currently drives engineering at Artsy, contributing to the public-facing force codebase and improving conversation UI, responsiveness, and timestamp logic. Her background spans startups and high-growth products—supporting millions of users at Stash and integrating complex third-party APIs and marketing platforms at Peerfit and Capture Media. A strong advocate for testing, TDD, and developer productivity, she routinely improves CI and RSpec coverage to enable safer deployments. Unusually for an engineer, she brings years of music education and ensemble leadership experience, which informs her collaborative, human-centered approach to technical work.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Music, Cello Performance, 4.0, Master of Music, Cello Performance, 4.0 at Columbus State UniversityWeb Development Immersive, Web Development Immersive at General AssemblyBachelor of Science, Psychology, 3.5, Bachelor of Science, Psychology, 3.5 at State University of New York at Buffalo
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Github Skills (20)
javascript10
command-line-arguments10
responsive-design10
typescript10
ruby10
command-line-parser10
argument-parsing10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
test-automation10
testing9
minitest9
graphql8
wordpress-graphql8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
artsy/force
Jul 2020 - Oct 2022
The Artsy.net website
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:92 reviews, 24 commits, 56 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jacqueline contributed to the front-end development of the Artsy website, specifically focusing on the conversation feature within the `force` repository. Their work included implementing and refining UI components using React and TypeScript. The user adjusted breakpoints and media queries to improve responsiveness and ensure proper display on different screen sizes, including tablet support. They also added logic for customizing message timestamps and wrote tests to validate their functionality.
reactjavascriptartsyexpress-jsgraphql
exercism/ruby
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Exercism exercises in Ruby.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 20 days
Contributions summary:Jacqueline primarily focused on modifying and maintaining the Ruby test suite generator for the Exercism platform. Their contributions involved removing and reverting options references, which indicates refactoring and debugging of command-line argument parsing logic. They added and removed tests related to the generator class, while removing versioning-related references. The changes were focused on refining the test generation process within the Exercism framework, including template adjustments and option handling.
exercism-exercisesexercism-trackrubypaddingexercism
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