Jen Griffin
Developer Coordinator
Helena, Alabama, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJen Griffin is a developer coordinator and long‑time open source contributor with 17 years of experience building web applications, administering systems, and mentoring volunteer engineers. Based in Helena, Alabama, she has deep hands‑on expertise in Perl, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and Mac OS X, and combines that with practical skills in technical documentation, database design, and end‑user support. At Dreamwidth she progressed from project leader to developer coordinator, shaping core features, reviewing code, and guiding development discussions for a well-known community blogging platform. Her contributions span backend feature work, UI refinements, and database schema improvements, reflecting a knack for improving both functionality and maintainability. Trained in earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences at MIT, she brings an analytical mindset and multidisciplinary curiosity to open source software and community stewardship.
17 years of coding experience
BS, EAPS (Course 12), BS, EAPS (Course 12) at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyIndian Springs School
Github Skills (9)
refactoring10
perl10
refactor10
mysql9
database-management9
user-interface8
css7
html7
php6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dreamwidth/dreamwidth
Apr 2009 - Jan 2023
Dreamwidth's open source repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:37 reviews, 1657 commits, 577 PRs in 13 years 11 months
Contributions summary:This user, kareila, contributed to the Dreamwidth open source project by implementing features, fixing bugs, and refactoring code within the codebase. Their commits focus on core functionality, including changes to user profile pages, user account settings, and enhancements to the email posting system. The contributions also include improvements to user interface elements in a variety of admin pages and templates, and updates to the underlying database schema.
perldreamwidth
kareila/dw-nonfree
Feb 2015 - Jul 2020
The unlicensed portion of Dreamwidth's code.
Contributions:26 pushes, 28 branches in 5 years 6 months
unlicenseddreamwidth
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