Jess Perkins
Founder at ITS - Insurance Technology Services
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolJess Perkins is a founder and independent software developer with 19 years of cross-industry experience building games, simulations, ETL platforms, CMSes, and full-stack web and mobile applications. She blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership—rearchitecting a Java/AWS ETL platform for insurance migrations while shipping .NET/Xamarin libraries and prototyping React/Redux apps. A programming-language polyglot, she has delivered production work for clients like Sony PlayStation and led Premake extensions used by SCE, alongside contributions to macOS accessibility and build-tool refactors in open source. Her strength is turning complex, legacy-driven problems into component-based, maintainable systems that accelerate delivery and reduce costs by orders of magnitude. Based in Pennsylvania, she pairs entrepreneurial drive with deep practical experience across cloud, desktop, and mobile stacks.
19 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (21)
accessibility10
objective-c10
ui-design10
lua10
uid10
front-end-development10
macos10
performance-optimization9
optmization9
optimisation9
optimization9
database6
certificate6
iphone6
premake6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
premake/premake-core
Nov 2011 - Jan 2022
Premake
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 88 reviews, 1489 commits in 10 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jess's commits primarily focused on refactoring and restructuring the code for the VC200x exporter. Their work involved splitting the exporter into function lists to enable overriding and splitting the code into smaller functions. This involved modifying the source code of `vs200x_vcproj.lua`, and tests as well, to enable these code optimizations, indicating an effort towards improved code maintainability and flexibility of the project.
premakeclua
cocoabits/MASShortcut
Nov 2014 - Feb 2015
Modern framework for managing global keyboard shortcuts compatible with Mac App Store. More details:
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jess primarily contributed to the UI and accessibility aspects of the `masshortcut` project, a framework for managing keyboard shortcuts on macOS. They implemented a new "flat" button style for the shortcut view and added initial accessibility support using 10.10 APIs, including VoiceOver integration. The user also fixed bugs and added functionality related to the `MASShortcutView` class.
keyboard-shortcutsmac-app-store
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