Jess Johnson
Lead Software Engineer at Collective Goods
Eugene, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJess Johnson is a lead software engineer with 13 years of experience designing and shipping scalable, data-driven systems from API dashboards and cloud-native microservices to high-performance Python ETLs and consumer apps. Based in Eugene, Oregon, she favors Python and Django but pragmatically adopts the best tool for each job, with hands-on experience spanning DevOps automation, Postgres tuning, and front-end work in ES6/Backbone. She has led teams and solo-founded products—building a book discovery service that handled extreme traffic spikes and recommender algorithms—so she combines product instincts with deep technical ownership. Notably, she has built FHIR-compliant APIs and tooling to detect mismatches between API docs and behavior, reflecting a focus on observability and correctness. Jess holds a Computer Science degree from UC Berkeley and continuously pursues learning opportunities to stay current across languages and infrastructure.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyAA General Studies, AA General Studies at College of Alameda
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
419reputation
16kreached
5answers
4questions
Github Skills (134)
python-client10
nokia10
xls10
pip10
fitbit10
csv10
django-admin10
fernet10
installer10
packaging10
django9
api9
python9
symmetric9
act9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
grokcode/grokcode.github.io
Jan 2016 - Sep 2024
Contributions:50 PRs, 75 pushes, 37 branches in 8 years 9 months
jekyllgithub-pages-site
orcasgit/django-template-field
Nov 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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