Jasmine Plum
Senior Software Engineer at MathWorks
Ashland, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJasmine Plum is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience blending systems-level C/C++ work and full-stack web development, currently contributing at MathWorks. A former university lecturer for 6.5 years at Rensselaer, she designed curricula and led large courses while managing teams of up to 55, bringing rare teaching-to-engineering empathy to product and developer interactions. Her open-source work on Submitty—especially maintaining the C++ "Rainbow Grades" grading engine and removing heavyweight dependencies—demonstrates attention to correctness, deterministic testing, and scalability in education-focused tooling. Comfortable across networking, OS, and application layers, she pairs deep kernel- and network-level knowledge with practical backend and testing experience (Selenium/Cypress, Postgres, LAMP/JS). Colleagues value her ability to translate complex technical constraints into teachable, maintainable solutions for both instructors and students.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (7)
autograd10
c-language10
submission10
cprogramming-language10
auto-generate10
testing10
json9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Submitty/Submitty
Jun 2017 - Jan 2022
Homework Submission, Automated Grading, and TA grading system.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 32 PRs, 94 pushes in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jasmine primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the "Rainbow Grades" feature, a core component of the Submitty grading system. Their work involved fixing bugs, particularly those related to unsigned/signed integer issues and scoping, within the C++ code. They also refactored code by removing dependencies on external libraries like `nlohmann::json`. Furthermore, the user added features and tests for deterministic sample course setups.
reactsubmittygrading-systemhomework-serverteaching-tools
holzbh/holzbh
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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