Jenny Ly
Software Engineer III at GitHub
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJenny Ly is a software engineer with eight years of experience building full-stack systems and a particular affinity for front-end UX, currently contributing to GraphQL platform work at GitHub. She progressed rapidly through engineering tiers at GitHub after earlier roles migrating services to cloud at Inmar and improving performance and reliability at Discover and Nationwide. Comfortable across React, Python/Django, Java, Spring, and GCP/AWS tooling, she blends pragmatic infrastructure know-how (Terraform, Kafka, Spark) with user-facing polish. A former teaching assistant and tutor, she pairs strong mentoring and debugging instincts with test-driven development habits. Based in Charlotte but originally developing in Boone, she balances fast-paced engineering with outdoorsy hobbies like hiking and crocheting, reflecting a practical, curious approach to learning new technologies.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Appalachian State University
English, Vietnamese, Chinese
Github Skills (23)
y8610
open-source10
javascript9
health8
assembly8
simulator8
mental-health8
runner7
simulation7
java7
x867
password-generator7
angular6
passwords6
typescript6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
lycb/R2-D2
Aug 2019 - Aug 2022
A CLI tool for generating passwords
Contributions:1 PR, 17 pushes, 2 comments in 3 years
passwordspassword-generatorcli-toolpasswordcli
lycb/ly86-64
Aug 2020 - Aug 2022
A y86-64 simulator on the browser
Contributions:36 commits, 33 PRs, 189 pushes in 1 year 11 months
emulatorbrowserjavascriptsimulationsimulator
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