Jenny Evans is an experienced online sales and operations professional with eight years of experience bridging customer-focused sales in real estate and hands-on technical contributions to developer tooling. Based in Seattle, she combines strengths in negotiation, budgeting, and customer service with practical software work as a full-stack contributor to Backstage, the popular open framework for developer portals. Her Backstage contributions span cost insights and catalog-backend improvements, showing an ability to navigate both front-end UX details and backend integrations for multi-organization providers. With a BA in Psychology from UNLV, she brings a nuanced understanding of human behavior to customer interactions and product decisions. Jenny’s profile reflects a rare mix of sales acumen and technical empathy, enabling smoother collaboration between business stakeholders and engineering teams. She’s particularly adept at translating operational needs into concrete engineering changes that improve developer experience and operational transparency.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology at University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:3 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Jen Evans made several contributions to the Backstage developer portal. They implemented changes to the cost insights plugin, including allowing title overrides and handling empty cost arrays. Further work involved modifying the catalog-backend, specifically adjusting logging levels for orphan cleanup. The user also merged branches and made changes within the `catalog-backend-module-github` for the multi-org entity provider.
Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals
Contributions:30 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 2 months
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