Jessica Rudder
Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
Earth, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJessica Rudder is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience and seven years focused on building web applications in Ruby on Rails and React. At GitHub she ships user-facing features like hovercards and extended nested team permissions, and contributed backend work to the widely-used GitHub Classroom to improve LTI and Google Classroom integrations. Equally at home fixing tricky bugs and optimizing systems, she shares engineering lessons publicly through conference talks, a YouTube channel (CompChomp), and published writing. Her background in product-facing roles—from Flatiron School to LitCharts—gives her a strong sense for design, onboarding flows, and developer ergonomics, while an arts degree and long-distance running hobby surface in her thoughtful, human-centered approach to engineering.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts, General, Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts, General at New York UniversityFull Stack Web Development, Full Stack Web Development at Flatiron SchoolInternational Baccalaureate Diploma, General Studies, International Baccalaureate Diploma, General Studies at Lee's Summit North
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Github Skills (10)
activerecord10
rails10
lti10
back-end-development10
ruby-on-rails10
rspec9
api8
apidoc8
devise6
ruby6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
github-education-resources/classroom
Aug 2019 - Dec 2019
GitHub Classroom automates repository creation and access control, making it easy for teachers to distribute starter code and collect assignments on GitHub.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:190 commits, 52 PRs, 155 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jessica primarily worked on the back-end functionality of GitHub Classroom, specifically focusing on the LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) integration and the Google Classroom synchronization feature. They made changes to controllers, models, and view-related files, improving the handling of user authentication, roster management, and assignment creation. These changes appear to have been aimed at enhancing the integration with existing Learning Management Systems and refining the import features.
gitpodcollectgithub-classroomautomatescreation
learn-co-students/apples-and-holidays-001
Sep 2015 - Apr 2023
Contributions:2 PRs in 7 years 7 months
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