Summary
Jennifer Geis is a software engineer with nine years of professional experience and a long track record of taking projects from conception through production, with deep strengths in system design, backend/middleware development, and database schema design. She has built and led middleware teams, managed campus-wide applications serving tens of thousands of students, and currently develops a science gateway for an NSF-funded water research project at the Research Corporation of the University of Hawai'i. Her technical toolkit centers on Java and Spring, with strong skills in JavaScript, Oracle/MySQL, XML, and version control systems, applied across both web and standalone engineering domains. Jennifer combines hands-on coding with practical project management experience, having shepherded eCAFE and contributed to multi-institution open-source efforts like Kuali. Based in Kailua, Hawaii, she brings a pragmatic focus on reliable, production-ready systems and a history of translating scientific and institutional needs into robust software solutions. An early-career entrepreneur, she also co-founded a recruitment platform, reflecting an ability to pivot technical roadmaps alongside evolving business models.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Information and Computer Science, M.S., Information and Computer Science at University of Hawaii at Manoa