Jeanette Head
Technical Engineering Manager at Khan Academy
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeanette Head is a Technical Engineering Manager with 14 years of experience building and guiding full-stack web applications, currently leading teams at Khan Academy in Denver. She blends hands-on development and architecture expertise with a passion for effective automated testing and continuous delivery, having progressed from senior engineer roles into management at Pivotal/VMware and Khan Academy. Known for mentoring—both professionally and through long-term FIRST involvement—she prioritizes knowledge sharing and team growth alongside shipping product outcomes. Her background as a consultant at Atomic Object and SRT gave her broad exposure to planning and delivery across diverse domains, which she leverages to balance product vision with engineering execution. Colleagues value her pragmatic approach to lifting engineering practices and turning complex requirements into reliable, testable systems.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.S, Computer Science, Cum Laude, B.S, Computer Science, Cum Laude at Michigan Technological University
Spanish
Github Skills (49)
khan-academy10
react-component9
ruby9
rails9
renderer9
react8
fetch8
editor8
github-api8
ui-components8
ember7
data-loading7
restful7
ruby-on-rails7
gradle-plugin6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jeanettehead/temp
May 2018 - Sep 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 3 years 4 months
denver-railsbridge/denver-railsbridge.github.io
Apr 2017 - Jul 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 46 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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