Jenn Allen
Product Team Manager at Jewelers Mutual Group
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJenn Allen is a product leader with 10 years of experience building developer-focused platforms, cloud-native tools, and data-driven SaaS products. She has led product and partner strategies at companies from HashiCorp and VMware to Apollo GraphQL and Dagger, launching inaugural SaaS offerings, shaping pricing, and driving rapid sign-ups and adoption. Her background blends developer relations, platform APIs, UX, and data, with hands-on contributions to open source—most notably UI and documentation improvements for HashiCorp's Waypoint project. Based in Durham, NC, she now manages product teams at Jewelers Mutual Group, focusing on making integrations and extensibility easier for developers and partners. Jenn also augments her product practice with formal AI study, bringing a practical understanding of machine learning and automation to product decisions. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic connector who turns complex platform needs into well-documented, developer-friendly experiences.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Artificial Intelligence, Certificate, Artificial Intelligence at The William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education at UNC-Chapel HillBachelor of Arts, English, Creative Writing minor, Bachelor of Arts, English, Creative Writing minor at Central Washington University
Japanese, French, English
Github Skills (8)
documentation10
javascript9
website-design9
css8
react8
hashicorp6
kubernetes-pods5
kubernetes5
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/waypoint
Jul 2020 - Oct 2020
A tool to build, deploy, and release any application on any platform.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:48 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jenn primarily focused on the user interface and documentation aspects of the Waypoint project. They made changes to the website's documentation navigation, incorporating new sections for Kubernetes-related examples and updating links. The user also updated the homepage's background color and modified the application's metadata, including title and description, indicating a focus on UI and content presentation.
dockerdevops
d3rp3tt3/datocms-Hugo-Portfolio-Website-demo
Apr 2020 - Jun 2024
Contributions:29 PRs, 32 pushes, 23 branches in 4 years 2 months
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