Jennifer Gilbert
Senior Website Development Engineer at Datadog
United States
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Top SchoolJennifer Gilbert is a Senior Website Development Engineer with 11 years of experience blending hands-on web engineering and developer-facing content at companies including Datadog, Lyft, and Stripe. She has transitioned between technical writing and engineering roles, uniquely positioning her to build developer-friendly websites and documentation that scale for observability products. Her background spans leadership in learning and developer relations—managing engineering L&D at Lyft and leading product development at Boombox LMS—so she combines people-first mentorship with pragmatic delivery. With a Computer Science foundation from Oregon State and a journalism degree, she pairs rigorous technical skill with effective communication, a combination evident in her repeated moves between docs and code. Notably, her career shows a pattern of building bridges between engineering, education, and product to turn complex systems into usable experiences.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Oregon State UniversityBachelor's degree Journalism, Bachelor's degree Journalism at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (132)
hugo10
parser10
faraday10
distributed-tracing10
drone-ci10
integrations10
terraform10
dry-rb10
profiling10
ruby-client10
opentelemetry10
stream-processing10
ansible-galaxy10
data-pipeline10
ansible-role10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
boombox-LMS/b5x
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
A monorepo containing the packages needed to deploy and interact with Boombox LMS.
Contributions:21 PRs, 209 pushes, 26 branches in 1 month
lmsmonorepotypescriptinteract
jhgilbert/would_you_rather
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
A project for my React nanodegree. Aside from the create-react-app boilerplate, _DATA.js was the only provided file.
Contributions:28 pushes, 8 branches in 21 days
reactnanodegreeboilerplateasidereact-nanodegree
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