Jennifer Spinney
Lead Software Engineer at Mechanical Orchard
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJennifer Spinney is a Lead Software Engineer in Seattle with 11 years of experience building and modernizing cloud-native systems, from internal Microsoft services to the Cloud Foundry ecosystem and recent mainframe-to-cloud migrations. She’s a pragmatic technical leader who pairs and practices TDD to safely transform COBOL/JCL batch jobs into Elixir services on Google Cloud while also having driven core features and reliability work across Cloud Foundry components like Diego, Cloud Controller, and the CF CLI. Her open-source contributions demonstrate deep familiarity with distributed schedulers, BOSH releases, CLI tooling, and acceptance testing—skills honed while fixing race conditions, improving observability, and integrating complex platform pieces. At Shopify and VMware she operated at staff/technical lead level, helping multiple teams ship resilient cloud platform capabilities. Detail-oriented and hands-on, she often works at the intersection of backend systems, DevOps, and developer experience, with a knack for reducing risk during large migrations.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/cli
Jun 2017 - Feb 2019
The official command line client for Cloud Foundry
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:66 commits, 12 PRs, 48 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Jennifer primarily focused on resolving race conditions within the v3-push and v3-stage commands and related tests. They also implemented changes to display crashed processes in red, enhancing the UI. Additionally, the user added a translatable error related to droplet assignment failures. Their contributions demonstrate expertise in command-line interface development, error handling, and testing within the Cloud Foundry CLI ecosystem.
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cloudfoundry/diego-release
Jun 2015 - May 2017
BOSH Release for Diego
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:167 commits, 10 PRs, 126 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Jennifer primarily focused on configuring and integrating various components within the `diego-release` BOSH release, a project related to the Cloud Foundry platform. Their work involved adding and configuring the BBS server and ensuring other components like Inigo, NSync, Receptor, Route-emitter, and TPS were compatible with it. The user also implemented changes to the `stager` and `tps` components, which indicates a responsibility for system integration and release management. Furthermore, they addressed a golang DNS issue and added a benchmarking job.
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