Jennifer S
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolJennifer S is an experienced software engineer and developer advocate based in Minneapolis with 12 years building and improving developer tools and libraries. She contributes to notable open-source projects such as CodeNarc—fixing formatting/convention bugs and adding rules to improve code-quality checks—and has worked on Spring REST Docs, Apache Groovy, and Gradle. A regular conference speaker at events like Grace Hopper, SpringOne, JFokus, and Devoxx Belgium, she bridges deep technical work with clear public-facing communication. Jennifer runs the Groovy Community Slack and founded GR8Ladies (now GR8DI), demonstrating sustained community leadership that informs her advocacy. Her background combines hands-on backend engineering with a talent for turning internal tooling improvements into broader community impact.
12 years of coding experience
Danmarks Tekniske UniversitetBachelor's, Bachelor's at Hamilton College
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Github Skills (17)
groovy10
testing10
java7
javas7
maven6
spring-rest-docs6
syntax-highlighting6
gradle6
highlightjs6
grails6
codenarc6
asciidoctor6
asciidoc6
algorithm4
algorithms4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
CodeNarc/CodeNarc
Jan 2017 - Jun 2020
CodeNarc is a static analysis tool for Groovy source code
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 15 PRs, 25 comments in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jennifer contributed to the CodeNarc project by fixing bugs related to code formatting and convention rules. They addressed false positives in the `SpaceAfterClosingBraceRule` and the `TrailingCommaRule`. They also added a new rule to detect if statements that could be rewritten as a switch statement. These changes indicate a focus on improving code quality and adherence to coding standards.
codenarcgroovystatic-analysiscode-qualitycode-quality-analyzer
jlstrater/gr8data
Jul 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:1 release, 4 commits, 2 PRs in 5 months
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