Jennifer Kerns
Retired at Chez KVL
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJennifer Kerns is a retired program manager and editor with over 30 years crafting high-quality technical and marketing content for Microsoft, GitHub, and enterprise customers. She built and led teams that produced reference architectures, certifications, and large-scale learning programs, reliably delivering polished intellectual property on aggressive schedules. At GitHub she helped scale customer success through automation and incubation work—contributing to tools like the Actions Importer and multi-cloud self-hosted runner solutions—and led development of GitHub’s certification and partner learning programs. A meticulous editor and mentor, she specializes in turning SME drafts into clear, globally localized content and has a knack for making complex cloud and developer tools approachable. Now based in Seattle, she spends retirement traveling, hosting a local Craft Club, and continuing to read and mend while staying attuned to tech education trends.
7 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BA, English with a writing emphasis, BA, English with a writing emphasis at University of Washington
Github Skills (35)
continuous-integration10
travis10
circleci10
travis-ci10
cicd10
migration10
gitlab10
azure-devops10
dokku10
jenkins10
azure10
gh-extension10
devops10
githubactions9
github-advanced-security9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ghas-bootcamp/ghas-bootcamp
Mar 2022 - Sep 2022
This bootcamp is designed to familiarize you with GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) so that you can better understand how to use it in your own repositories.
Contributions:2 reviews, 17 commits, 7 PRs in 6 months
repositoriesgithub-advanced-securitysecurityadvanced-security-trainingghas-bootcamp
github/gh-actions-importer
Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:5 reviews, 3 commits, 2 PRs in 4 months
planci-pipelinestraviscontinuous-integrationazure-devops
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