Jess Solka
Senior UI Engineer at Netflix
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJess Solka is a Senior UI Engineer with a decade of experience designing and shipping user-facing systems at companies from startups to Netflix. She blends front-end craftsmanship—React, modern build tooling, and pragmatic UI architecture—with hands-on leadership, having led technical squads and managed engineers through cross-team integrations and large-scale initiatives. Jess has a track record of improving developer workflows and product reliability, from introducing CI/CD and testing practices at major newsrooms to building microservices and AWS-backed systems. She champions inclusive team culture and mentorship, pairing technical growth conversations with practical engineering ownership. Based in Washington, D.C., she started her career in education and therapy, a background that informs her data-driven, empathetic approach to product and team problems. Outside of work, she’s passionate about diversity & inclusion and has a soft spot for cats.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Walter Johnson HSBachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (49)
ace-editor10
wysiwyg10
jodit10
rich-text-editor10
react-native9
react-hooks9
react-native-component9
formik9
rrule9
higher-order-component9
react9
rfc9
html9
flowtype8
cli8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jessicarobins/everee
Jul 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:161 pushes, 29 branches in 1 year 4 months
jessicarobins/jessstuff
Feb 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:24 PRs, 190 pushes, 39 branches in 6 months
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