Jess Lee
Founder at dev.to
United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolJess Lee is a founder and full-stack developer with 10 years of experience building product-focused web experiences and community platforms. As a co-founder of Forem, she contributed front-end improvements to events, sponsorships, and user listing pages, blending HTML/CSS/JS with Rails to make community features more usable and attractive. Her background spans product management at DoSomething.org and marketing roles in the music industry, giving her a rare mix of user-centered product instincts and go-to-market savvy. Trained in web development through General Assembly and grounded by a B.S. combining business and piano performance, she brings creative problem solving and cross-disciplinary communication to technical product work.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development Immersive, Web Development Immersive at General AssemblyB.S. Interdisciplinary Studies, Business Administration & Piano Performance, B.S. Interdisciplinary Studies, Business Administration & Piano Performance at State University of New York College at Fredonia
Chinese
Github Skills (8)
html10
css10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
javascript9
co8
discourse7
conversation7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
forem/forem
Mar 2018 - Oct 2019
For empowering community 🌱
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:115 commits, 116 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Jess primarily contributed to the front-end of the Forem project, specifically focusing on improving and updating the appearance and functionality of the platform's events and sponsorship sections. They made changes to the presentation of events, updating the styling and layout. The user also added a variety of features to the internal user pages and the listing pages. These changes involve HTML, CSS, and potentially JavaScript/Ruby on Rails.
reactrailsrubyempoweringfeedback
jessleenyc/vimeo
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
The vimeo project allows users to pick the duration of time they can set aside towards watching well-curated videos. After the user selects their amount of time, they are able to choose different categories of interest or pick 'random' for a series of videos curated to the amount of time they have allotted.
Contributions:44 commits, 12 PRs, 29 pushes in 15 days
reactasidejavascriptpickinterest
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