Jennifer Nelson
Lead UI Engineer at LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJennifer Nelson is a Lead UI Engineer with nine years of experience building scalable, accessible frontend systems and design systems for enterprise products. She excels at translating complex product and design requirements into reusable components and developer-friendly tooling, having led design system adoption, Storybook-driven documentation, and semantic npm deployments. A practiced team builder and mentor, she drives cross-team code ownership, coaches direct reports through OKRs, and uses AI-assisted tools to boost code quality and velocity. Her background as an English teacher and certified group fitness instructor informs a clear, empathetic communication style and a habit of breaking problems into teachable, repeatable patterns. Based in Birmingham, AL, she combines startup grit—from founding-role product work and fundraising—to enterprise delivery, uniquely blending product sense, pedagogy, and hands-on engineering.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts in Education Secondary English/Language Arts, Master of Arts in Education Secondary English/Language Arts at University of Alabama at BirminghamWeb Development Fullstack with React, Web Development Fullstack with React at Flatiron SchoolB.A. English and Religious Studies, B.A. English and Religious Studies at The University of Alabama
Github Skills (6)
searching3
react3
multiselect2
selectbox2
dropdown2
react-select1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jennianelson/progress-tracker-app
Jan 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:141 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
jennianelson/sinatra-character-keeper
Oct 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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