Jen Person
Developer Relations Engineer
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolJen Person is a Developer Relations Engineer with 10 years of experience blending iOS engineering, education, and developer advocacy from Paris. She has built high-impact learning products and sample code—authoring a widely adopted Firebase iOS course and contributing backend and auth-focused samples to Firebase’s official repos, including Cloud Functions and Node.js snippets. At startups and scale-ups she’s driven community and docs strategy, most recently helping found Koyeb’s DevRel team before joining Mistral AI. Her background in mathematics and classroom teaching informs a clear, pedagogy-first approach to technical content and developer experience. Colleagues rely on her to translate complex backend integrations into approachable, production-ready examples that accelerate adoption.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Java Programming and Software Engineering specialization created by Duke University, Java Programming and Software Engineering specialization created by Duke University at CourseraBachelor's degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics at Central Connecticut State UniversityNanodegree, iOS development, Nanodegree, iOS development at Udacity
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firebase
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firebase-cloud-messaging
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swift
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google-cloud-functions
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javascript
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firebase-security
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Github Skills (32)
google-cloud-firestore10
firebase-authentication10
javascript10
stripe10
azure-functions10
authentication10
user-authentication10
google-cloud-functions10
firebase-cloud-functions10
firebase-realtime-database10
ibm-cloud-functions10
firestore10
nodejs10
firebase10
ios9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
firebase/snippets-node
Sep 2017 - Mar 2019
Node.js snippets for firebase.google.com
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 12 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Jen primarily contributed code snippets and examples for Firebase's Node.js snippets repository. Their work focused on demonstrating various authentication features, including creating custom tokens, managing email action links (password resets, email verification, and sign-in links), and importing users. The user also added snippets for managing user sessions and verifying ID tokens, highlighting their contributions to Firebase authentication. Additionally, the user made changes to improve code style and maintainability.
google-firebasenode-jsjavascriptfirebasesnippets
firebase/functions-samples
Jun 2017 - Sep 2018
Collection of sample apps showcasing popular use cases using Cloud Functions for Firebase
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 7 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Jen primarily contributed to the Firebase Cloud Functions samples, focusing on enhancing the functionality of the generate-thumbnail and Stripe integration examples. They added features like uploading signed URLs to the database and updated the frontend to reflect changes in the functions. Additionally, they refactored the Stripe sample, updating Firestore rules and data structures for enhanced functionality. These updates demonstrate a focus on both backend and frontend development, ensuring the samples demonstrate cohesive functionality.
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