Jenny Ly
Software Engineer at github
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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RockstarJenny 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
Github Skills (17)
y8610
assembly9
javascript9
open-source9
mobile-application8
password-generator8
x868
simulator8
angular7
typescript6
java6
passwords5
python5
ruby4
graphql3
Programming languages (7)
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/Together
Feb 2020 - Mar 2022
A mobile app intended for students with mental health issues to connect with their community.
Contributions:43 commits, 66 PRs, 76 pushes in 2 years
mobile-application
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