Jenna Hight
Frontend Web Developer at Baxter International Inc.
Abano Terme, Veneto, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolJenna Hight is a frontend web developer with nine years of engineering experience who transitioned from mechanical and automation engineering into full-stack web development, now focused on React and Rails with a strong interest in backend systems. Currently at Baxter, she brings a pragmatic blend of product-focused frontend work and backend understanding, having previously built full-stack features, CI/CD pipelines, and PostgreSQL-heavy payout systems at Welltok and Aetna. Her background in mechanical engineering and operations leadership (including scaling manufacturing at Zootility) gives her a systems-oriented approach to software design and reliability. An active open-source contributor, she has contributed backend fixes to the notable beeware/batavia project, implementing Python tuple operators in JavaScript. Based in Abano Terme, Italy, Jenna is eager to join collaborative teams where she can bridge frontend polish with robust backend implementations.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSE Mechanical Engineering, Minor Mathematics, Cum Laude, BSE Mechanical Engineering, Minor Mathematics, Cum Laude at University of Michigan
Github Skills (3)
javascript10
python10
testing9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
beeware/batavia
Feb 2017 - Jun 2017
A JavaScript implementation of the Python virtual machine.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jenna Hight contributed to the Batavia project by implementing and fixing operators related to Python's tuple data type. Her work involved adding and correcting features like floor division, modulo, and in-place operations. The commits indicate modifications to both the JavaScript (Batavia's core implementation) and Python (tests) codebases. She also merged upstream changes.
javascriptpythonvirtual-machine
skierchic/Cribbage
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:53 commits in 1 month
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