Janessa Garrow
Senior Software Engineer at Spring Health
Greater Pittsburgh Region United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJanessa Garrow is a Senior Software Engineer with 8 years of full‑stack experience and a specialty in frontend and developer experience, currently driving improvements at Spring Health after rebuilding MX’s documentation site end-to-end. She combines a background in linguistics and language teaching with strong technical skills (React, TypeScript, GraphQL, Node) to translate complex concepts into intuitive UIs and learning platforms—previously building Apollo’s custom learning platform and contributing documentation improvements to prominent projects like Apollo Federation. Janessa focuses on developer productivity, having led search, CI/CD, and content architecture initiatives that measurably increased engagement and reduced time-to-production. She’s passionate about educational tooling and community-facing content, and her atypical path from language instruction gives her a persistent knack for simplifying workflows and improving how teams teach and learn code.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at BloomTechBachelor of Arts - BA Italian Studies, Bachelor of Arts - BA Italian Studies at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (7)
apollo10
federation10
documentation10
wpgraphql9
algolia9
wordpress-graphql9
graphql9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
apollographql/federation
Jul 2021 - Mar 2022
🌐 Build and scale a single data graph across multiple services with Apollo's federation gateway.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer / Documentation Specialist
Technical Writer / Documentation SpecialistContributions:2 reviews, 22 commits, 11 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Janessa primarily focused on updating documentation related to the Apollo Federation project. Their contributions involved modifying the `gatsby-config.js` file, likely to configure the documentation site. They updated the `algoliaFilters` for search functionality, adjusted the subtitle, and included new search results, enhancing the discoverability and organization of the documentation. The user's work improves the clarity and usability of the project's documentation for developers.
graph-datascaleapollo-federationgatewayfederation
Lambda-School-Labs/life-logger-fe
May 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:197 commits, 55 PRs, 79 pushes in 3 months
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