Jenay Barela
Software Engineer at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJenay Barela is a software engineer with eight years of experience who currently builds scalable systems at Amazon after progressing through multiple internships into a full-time engineering role. Comfortable across languages and stacks, Jenay has contributed back-end improvements and UX tweaks to the widely used Submitty grading platform, focusing on forum features like announcement expiration, thread numbering, and bookmarking. A competitive problem-solver with early roots—New Mexico BotBall first place and NCWIT National Award winner—she blends practical engineering with a knack for improving developer-facing tools. Based in Seattle and trained at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Jenay pairs production-grade discipline with curiosity and a track record of shipping thoughtful, user-focused features.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Taos High SchoolBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (9)
php10
forum10
database9
querying9
databases9
css8
postgresql8
javascript7
autograd4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Submitty/Submitty
Dec 2019 - Dec 2022
Homework Submission, Automated Grading, and TA grading system.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 22 commits, 13 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Jenay primarily focused on implementing and refactoring features within the forum component of the Submitty platform. Their contributions included modifying forum functionality with features such as announcement expiration, thread numbers, and bookmarking features. They also refactored code related to the forum, including function name changes and type hints, and made CSS changes affecting the forum's visual appearance.
reactsubmittygrading-systemhomework-serverteaching-tools
AndreasRizk/Build-A-Bot
Feb 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:15 commits, 1 push in 2 months
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