Jen Trudell
Staff Software Engineering Manager at GitHub
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJen Trudell is a Staff Software Engineering Manager at GitHub with 11 years of engineering experience and a background that uniquely includes practicing law. She leads teams responsible for GitHub's data centers, bare metal servers, and the tooling that keeps thousands of machines running reliably, combining hands-on Ruby, Go, and Python development with infrastructure operations leadership. Known for pragmatism and a fondness for Vim, she moves between building automation, optimizing legacy systems, and managing large ops teams. Based in Chicago, Jen brings a results-oriented mindset from both engineering and legal practice, making her adept at navigating complex technical, operational, and stakeholder challenges.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
AB Anthropology, AB Anthropology at University of MichiganJD Law, JD Law at University of Chicago Law School
Github Skills (14)
koa9
middleware9
nodejs8
async8
smoke7
portal6
metadata6
swift5
javascript5
alarm4
discord-bot2
minecraft1
discord1
to-do1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jtrudell/Andy-s-NCAA-Pick-Five-Site
Jan 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:8 PRs, 67 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 11 months
reactsinatrajquerypoolpick
jtrudell/dotfiles
Jun 2016 - Sep 2020
Contributions:28 pushes in 4 years 4 months
vimeverzsh-pluginsneovimvimrc
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