Jess Eldredge
Engineering Manager at Coforma
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolJess Eldredge is an Engineering Manager based in Washington, DC with 13 years of professional experience and 15+ years building for the web, specializing in JavaScript, CSS, and front-end systems. They combine hands-on full-stack work—evidenced by contributions to a Rails conference CFP app—with leadership in product-focused teams driving subscriptions, checkout, and redesign projects. At companies from Shopify and LivingSocial to Slate and Splice, Jess has led style guides, design systems, and migrations that improved performance, accessibility, and conversion. They balance technical depth (GraphQL, TypeScript, RxJS, Angular) with strong mentorship and process improvements, often documenting and teaching best practices. An extroverted introvert who still loves CSS, Jess also brings a community-minded streak—running little free library projects and contributing to open-source tooling.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. English Technical Communication, B.A. English Technical Communication at James Madison UniversityN/A Graphic and Web Design, N/A Graphic and Web Design at Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University
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Github Skills (8)
rails10
back-end-development10
ruby-on-rails10
html9
css9
javascript8
rspec8
front-end-development8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rubycentral/cfp-app
Jan 2015 - Aug 2016
Rails app for managing a conference CFP
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:43 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Jess primarily contributed to the Rails application's front-end and back-end aspects. They updated UI elements, including labels, and navigation, and addressed CSS styling. They also modified the application's behavior, such as redirecting after proposal creation and adjusting the display of information. Additionally, they made back-end adjustments to proposal decorators and controllers.
rails-app
jessabean/jessabean.github.io
Oct 2013 - Jul 2019
Contributions:108 commits, 44 pushes, 10 branches in 5 years 10 months
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