Jennifer Solman
Software Engineer at Conversa Health
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJennifer Solman is a software engineer based in Portland, Oregon with nine years of experience building back-end systems and DevOps tooling. She has shipped production-grade features at Conversa Health and previously contributed to Puppet’s core server automation framework, where she improved file serving, locale handling, and selinux error handling—work that touches a widely used open-source project. Her background spans roles in QA and application engineering, giving her a practical focus on reliability, testing, and incremental improvement. Jennifer holds an MS in Computer Science and Engineering from OHSU and a BA in Linguistics, a combination that informs her attention to detail and systems thinking. She thrives on making brittle infrastructure more robust and has a track record of adding defensive features that prevent regressions across distributed agents and modules.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Linguistics, BA, Linguistics at University of OregonAssociate of Arts, 2003, Associate of Arts, 2003 at Central Oregon Community CollegePortland State UniversityMS, Computer Science and Engineering, GPA: 3.6, MS, Computer Science and Engineering, GPA: 3.6 at Oregon Health and Science University
Github Skills (14)
configuration-management10
rspec10
puppeteer10
puppet10
ruby10
devops9
file-server9
file-sharing9
fileshare9
ember-i18n8
i18n-js8
rails-i18n8
yaml7
selinux7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
puppetlabs/puppet
Oct 2017 - Mar 2018
Server automation framework and application
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:21 commits, 17 PRs, 8 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jennifer primarily contributed to the Puppet framework, focusing on improving the module and file serving capabilities. Key contributions include implementing a new mountpoint for locales, which involved changes to core file serving logic and module handling. Additionally, the user addressed a bug in the selinux module, enhancing error handling for the `semodule` command, along with supporting tests. Furthermore, the user worked on improving the agent functionality by adding features that prevent older servers from requesting locales and resolving issues with environment handling, as shown in the recent commits.
automation-framework
8675309/puppet
Oct 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:21 pushes, 13 branches in 5 months
frameworkautomationjavaautomation-frameworkserver-automation
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