Jess Guttenberg
Senior Software Engineer at Q-Centrix
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolJess Guttenberg is a Senior Software Engineer in San Diego with 7 years of experience building high-performance Rails and GraphQL SaaS applications. She has led cross-functional initiatives—from converting at-risk primary keys to bigints in production to designing release processes—that reduced bugs and accelerated delivery while preserving sprint predictability. Comfortable across backend, data, and AWS tooling, she has driven measurable performance wins (e.g., halving oncology import times and cutting memory/runtime through caching and refactors). Her background in education and coaching informs strong communication, mentorship, and process optimization skills that help teams scale sustainably. Notably, she pairs hands-on technical execution with observability-driven troubleshooting to turn operational pain points into repeatable engineering practices.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts International Training and Education, Master of Arts International Training and Education at American UniversityBachelor's degree Communication Studies & African American Studies, Bachelor's degree Communication Studies & African American Studies at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (5)
ruby-on-rails2
react2
rails1
pair-programming1
ruby1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jessigu/js-basics-online-shopping-lab-bootcamp-prep-000
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:240 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
the-bundle-execs/mobfit
Apr 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:93 commits, 38 PRs, 36 pushes in 13 days
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