Summary
Jessica Fan is a software engineer based in California with a BS in Statistics and Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon and eight years of hands-on experience spanning security research, NLP, and full-stack product development. Currently at Gusto, she builds user-facing verification flows and fraud-detection features using React, TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, and GraphQL, having previously automated onboarding work that saved hundreds of RiskOps hours. Her background includes security research at CMU’s Cylab and applied NLP for legal-text analysis, where she presented findings to the Law Revision Counsel—demonstrating an uncommon blend of privacy-aware engineering and policy-facing research. Jessica is passionate about data-driven solutions that increase equity and efficiency, and she brings a practical curiosity (and a sideline in photography) to cross-functional collaboration and tooling improvements.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
U.S. Senate Page School
Bachelor of Science - BS, Statistics and Machine Learning & CS, Bachelor of Science - BS, Statistics and Machine Learning & CS at Carnegie Mellon University
French, Chinese, Chinese