Jenny Brown
Software Engineer at airbytehq
Pekin, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJenny Brown is a versatile software engineer with 20+ years of Java/J2EE expertise and eight years focused on data platforms and engineering, recently enabling big-data compute for research scientists in AWS-based devops roles. She blends deep systems and UNIX knowledge with hands-on experience in Python, pandas, Terraform, Docker, and NLP, delivering full lifecycle solutions from architecture to production and support. As a back-end contributor to Airbyte, she improved API robustness and scalability for a leading open-source data integration platform, showing a knack for pragmatic data integrity and pagination fixes. Known for mentoring and translating academic research into production-ready tools, she excels at putting powerful analytics into scientists’ hands while balancing performance, data modeling, and operational reliability.
4 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Bradley UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignHigh School, High School at Illinois Math and Science Academy
English
Github Skills (15)
javas10
api-design10
java10
data-integration9
data-engineering9
postgresql9
error-handling9
etl9
json8
data-pipeline8
data-pipelines8
jtest7
junit7
configuration-management6
self-hosting5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
airbytehq/airbyte
Jun 2021 - Nov 2021
The leading data integration platform for ETL / ELT data pipelines from APIs, databases & files to data warehouses, data lakes & data lakehouses. Both self-hosted and Cloud-hosted.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:69 reviews, 24 commits, 48 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Jenny's commits primarily focused on enhancing the backend functionality and stability of the Airbyte data integration platform. Their contributions included implementing validation checks for source and destination definition IDs, ensuring data integrity during connection creation. Additionally, they worked on standardizing error structures in JSON responses, making the API more robust and easier to debug. The user also made improvements to job history retrieval by adding paged results to manage large datasets.
operationpythondataintegration-platformdata-warehouse
burmecia/airbyte
Aug 2021 - Oct 2021
Airbyte is an open-source EL(T) platform that helps you replicate your data in your warehouses, lakes and databases.
Contributions:27 commits in 2 months
data-sciencesqlbigquerybig-dataspark
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