Jenny Pletner
Software Engineer at Gap Intelligence
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorJenny Pletner is a software engineer in San Diego with 20+ years in technology and a decade of hands-on development experience, recently transitioning from IT Program Manager to Senior Software Engineer. She specializes in full-stack web development with eight years focused on Ruby on Rails and React, shipping pragmatic solutions across healthcare, real estate, market intelligence, and defense. A proactive asynchronous communicator, she excels at driving projects across distributed teams with autonomy and disciplined problem-solving. Her open-source contributions include back-end and QA work for rubyforgood/casa, improving testing and usability for a nonprofit serving foster youth. Holding a Secret clearance since 2014, she blends operational rigor with developer craftsmanship and maintains a public portfolio and GitHub showcasing practical, test-driven improvements.
10 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
ruby10
management10
manager10
rspec10
ruby-rails10
rails10
manage10
casa10
testing10
github-ci4
githubaction-workflow4
jquery3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rubyforgood/casa
Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
Volunteer management system for nonprofit CASA, which serves foster youth in counties across America.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:1 review, 15 commits, 6 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jenny primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the application by adding features such as random thank you messages and updating flash messages. They also focused on improving testing by adding specs and updating existing ones for the `CaseContactsController`, ensuring the application's behavior is well-defined and tested. Additionally, the user modified court orders to improve system usability. This indicates a focus on both feature development and quality assurance within the project.
servesyouthr4gmanagement-systemcasa
jpletner/Avritek.Company.Site
Sep 2015 - Apr 2020
Contributions:36 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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