Summary
Jen Reiss is a Senior Software Engineer II based in Chicago with two years of industry experience building full-stack applications and delivering production services to AWS. Proficient in TypeScript, Rust, Haskell, and SQL, she focuses on the intersection of performance and correctness, favoring Rust and Haskell for fault-tolerant, high-performance systems. Jen has progressed rapidly through roles at Mercury, Architect.xyz, and Granola Systems, and has hands-on experience converting JavaScript to TypeScript to improve safety and maintainability. She combines practical front-end and back-end skills with a developer’s attention to correctness, and is actively seeking new domains where strong types and low-level performance make a measurable difference.
2 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Loyola University Chicago