Jenny Xing
Career Counseling And Wellness Intern at University of California, Berkeley
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJenny Xing is a multidisciplinary software engineer and educator with 12 years of experience building full-stack products, teaching bootcamps, and mentoring engineers through technical interviews and career transitions. Based in San Francisco, she has shipped production features at The New York Times and SeatGeek, contributed MIDI-rendering functionality to the Verovio music-engraving library, and built research-grade web tools for computational psychiatry. Her work blends rigorous engineering—refactoring pitch and timing logic for MEI-to-MIDI conversion—with human-centered practice as a career counselor and wellness intern supporting students at UC Berkeley. Jenny leads teams to deliver tight-deadline product updates (e.g., festival site improvements) and designs curricula that achieve high subject mastery for learners. She combines technical depth in web and backend systems with a strengths-based counseling approach, uniquely positioning her to coach engineers through both career growth and technical skill development. A lifelong learner with degrees spanning computer science, psychology, and counseling, she bridges code, research, and human-centered care.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Career Counseling/Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Master of Science - MS Career Counseling/Clinical Mental Health Counseling at San Francisco State UniversityMaster of Arts - MA Psychology, Master of Arts - MA Psychology at The City College of New YorkContinuing and Professional Education Film and Psychology, Continuing and Professional Education Film and Psychology at The New SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Virginia
Chinese
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Github Skills (9)
midi-instrument10
midi10
ei10
imei10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
music-notation10
musicxml6
javascript4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rism-digital/verovio
Feb 2016 - Apr 2016
🎵 Music notation engraving library for MEI with MusicXML and Humdrum support and various toolkits (JavaScript, Python)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 7 pushes, 1 comment in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jenny primarily contributed to the implementation of MIDI file generation functionality within the Verovio library. Their work involved adding a `RenderToMidiFile` method to the `toolkit`, refactoring pitch calculations, and incorporating accidentals. They modified code related to `measure`, `layerelement`, and `doc`, including refactoring and debugging the conversion of MEI data into MIDI output, including note onsets and durations, while also modifying the Emscripten files.
engravingpythonmusic-compositionpypisvg
jennyxing/jennyxing.github.io
Feb 2019 - Oct 2024
Jenny Xing's Personal Website
Contributions:11 PRs, 60 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 9 months
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