Jalena Taylor
Senior Software Engineer II at Guild
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJalena Taylor is a Senior Software Engineer with seven years of experience building web applications and a background that uniquely blends digital marketing, email development, and backend engineering. She progressed at Guild Education from Software Engineer to Senior Software Engineer II, bringing a TDD-driven approach to turning user stories into reliable, well-tested features. Her early work managing websites, mobile apps, and email programs taught her to treat code as an extension of design—optimizing for both user experience and deliverability. Comfortable debugging complex issues and coordinating cross-functional teams, she has a pragmatic product mindset rooted in analytics and UX. Based in Denver, she pairs formal training from Turing School with hands-on marketing experience, which helps her bridge technical and business priorities in product development. An observant problem-solver, she often finds value in small interface or workflow tweaks that disproportionately improve engagement and conversion.
7 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Backend Engineering, Backend Engineering at Turing School of Software & DesignB.S., Journalism and Mass Communication, Advertising, B.S., Journalism and Mass Communication, Advertising at University of Colorado Boulder
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Github Skills (25)
rails-app8
payment8
hosting6
backend6
ruby-on-rails5
mongodb5
nodejs5
php5
rails5
relational4
ruby4
commerce4
contentful3
activerecord3
gatsbyjs3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jalena-penaligon/vacaypay
May 2019 - Jul 2019
An application designed to streamline group vacations by simplifying the payment process.
Contributions:129 commits, 46 PRs, 66 pushes in 1 month
streamlinesimplifyingpayment-processpaymentvacations
jalena-penaligon/sweater-weather
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:64 commits, 20 PRs, 22 pushes in 29 days
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