Jenan Wise
Software Engineer at Stainless
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJenan Wise is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years of experience building and leading engineering efforts across startups and large tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has a track record from founding early-stage engineering at Counsyl to engineering management at Stripe and technical work at Anthropic, and now contributes at Stainless. Jenan spans full-stack development and developer experience, demonstrated by open-source contributions to the popular Spacemacs project where she improved Go, Ruby, and Clojure workflows and keybindings. Her background combines product-focused execution with hands-on technical craftsmanship, especially in developer tooling and integrations. Based on a CS degree from UC San Diego and long-term involvement in both product and infrastructure work, she brings pragmatic engineering judgment and a knack for smoothing developer workflows. Colleagues would describe her as a steady technical leader who still prefers solving hard problems directly in code.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Github Skills (12)
configuration-management10
configurations10
go10
emacs10
configuration-file10
spacemacs10
git9
clojure8
ruby8
clojure-cli8
co7
vim5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
syl20bnr/spacemacs
Jun 2015 - Nov 2015
A community-driven Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 8 PRs, 9 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Jenan contributed to the Spacemacs configuration by adding and modifying keybindings and functionality within the Emacs environment. They added shortcuts for Go development, updated the use of `magit-blame` in Git integration, and integrated `enh-ruby-mode` for interpreter-detected Ruby files. Additionally, they declared prefixes for the Go layer and extended keybinding prefixes for Clojure modes.
emacsvimcommunity-drivenconfigurationspacemacs
jenanwise/codequality
Jun 2010 - Jan 2014
Contributions:24 commits in 3 years 8 months
command-linecheckingcli
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