Jennifer Hwa
Sr. Software Engineer at Optum
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States
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Top SchoolJennifer Hwa is a senior software engineer with nine years of experience building full-stack web applications, currently at Optum in the Twin Cities region. She brings a unique blend of rigorous scientific training—a PhD in Neurosciences from Stanford and postdoctoral research at UCSF—and practical engineering skills from a Hack Reactor immersive, enabling her to translate complex domain problems into maintainable software. Proficient in modern JavaScript (ES6), Node.js, React, Express, and relational databases, she has steadily progressed from web developer to senior engineer roles in healthcare and medical informatics. Known for thriving in collaborative teams, she pairs data-driven thinking with hands-on implementation to ship reliable features that bridge research and production.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Full stack software engineering immersive, Full stack software engineering immersive at Hack ReactorPhD, Neurosciences, PhD, Neurosciences at Stanford UniversityGithub contributions (5)
jen1425/Greenfield
Apr 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 11 branches in 1 month
soundcloudfeedfilter
jen1425/UforU
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:11 pushes, 19 branches in 1 month
pythongamesimulationmindsgreenfield
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