Jessica Kunkel
Junior Software Engineer at LINQ
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJessica Kunkel is a Junior Software Engineer with a master’s in Software Engineering and a decade of professional experience bridging biomedical research, regulatory risk management, and front-end UX design. Based in Pittsburgh, she combines rigorous attention to detail from ISO- and FDA-compliant medical device work with a user-focused approach to building web interfaces, showcased in her portfolio and GitHub projects. Her background in biomedical engineering and hands-on lab experience gives her a unique ability to translate clinical and regulatory constraints into practical, human-centered software solutions for healthcare and biotech. At LINQ she’s applying that cross-disciplinary perspective to software development, drawing on prior roles that ranged from patient-safety risk assessments to managing high-volume pharmacy operations. Quietly entrepreneurial, she pairs prototyping and UX skills with disciplined documentation practices uncommon in early-career engineers.
10 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Software Engineering at Penn State UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering at University of Pittsburgh
Github Skills (26)
javascript10
css10
math10
nodejs10
react10
codebase9
certification9
xslt7
edtech7
regex7
cytoscape7
relaxng7
gift7
xquery7
xml7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
laurenmcguigan/DecameronProject
Feb 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:51 commits, 13 PRs, 45 pushes in 2 months
jlm323/Classwork
Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:73 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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