Jenny Schweers
Lead Developer, SureAdhere at Dimagi
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJenny Schweers is a lead full-stack developer with 12 years of experience building and maintaining large, mission-driven codebases for healthcare and underserved communities. Based in Cambridge, MA, she now leads development of SureAdhere at Dimagi after progressing through senior engineering and product leadership roles within the organization. She combines hands-on backend refactoring—evident in contributions to CommCareHQ, the backend for a widely used offline-first mobile health platform—with UX research and design instincts honed at Carnegie Mellon. Known for caring for “big old” systems, she balances pragmatic maintenance and modernization while shipping user-focused features for frontline workers.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteMaster's Human Computer Interaction, Master's Human Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (5)
refactoring10
python10
back-end-development10
refactor10
django10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dimagi/commcare-hq
Jan 2015 - Jan 2023
CommCareHQ is the server backend for CommCare, the world's largest platform for designing, managing, and deploying robust, offline-first, mobile applications to frontline workers worldwide
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3611 reviews, 35954 commits, 6568 PRs in 8 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jenny's commits focused on removing outdated PACT reports and fields within the backend of CommCareHQ, indicating a role in maintaining and refactoring existing backend code. Their work included code modifications within custom PACT reports for a medical platform. The user also removed unused utilities, and updated existing code to reflect more current practices.
backendcommcaremobile-applicationcommcare-hq
dimagi/MediaUploader
Apr 2015 - Apr 2021
Contributions:1 review, 21 PRs, 26 pushes in 6 years
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