Jennifer Schelkopf
Director Of Product Management at GitHub
Bentonville, Arkansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJennifer Schelkopf is a product leader and former engineer with 11 years of experience who currently directs Product Management for Secret Scanning and Security Overview at GitHub, where she leads teams to secure code at scale. She blends hands-on engineering background—from building databases and SaaS products to contributing backend enhancements for test-data tooling—with strategic product work for enterprise customers on GitHub Actions and security features. Her track record includes shipping reusable workflows, enterprise server capabilities, and organization-level security controls, and she pairs customer-driven roadmapping with cross-functional execution. Prior roles at Apple, FoundationDB, and as a startup founder/CTO give her a rare mix of large-company product rigor and scrappy startup engineering. Based in Bentonville, Arkansas, she also invests in real estate and contributes to open-source tooling that simplifies developer testing across databases.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of Central Arkansas
English
Github Skills (10)
data-generation10
postgresql10
fake-data-generator10
python10
mysql10
mongodb-database9
pymongo9
mongodb9
database-design9
psycopg9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
emirozer/fake2db
Dec 2014 - Dec 2014
create custom test databases that are populated with fake data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Jennifer primarily focused on enhancing the `fake2db` project by adding support for connecting to and interacting with different database systems, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB. They implemented functionalities to pass host and port parameters, allowing users to connect to databases on different hosts and ports. Furthermore, the user modified database handler files to create database tables and populate them with fake data for different database types, effectively improving the project's utility in setting up test databases. Additionally, the user addressed some minor bugs, like reverting a type change.
testingfake-datadatabasedatabases
jenschelkopf/project-card-moved-notification-action
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Action to notify an issue's assignee if its card is moved between project columns
Contributions:1 release, 25 commits, 23 pushes in 1 day
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