Jessica Schilling
Product Engineer at Protocol Labs, Inc.
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJessica Schilling is a product engineer and UX-driven product strategist with 20+ years of leadership experience and eight years focused on hands-on product design and front-end work. She blends high-level product and organizational strategy with practical UI implementation—evident in roles from Protocol Labs (leading developer onboarding UX) to Liberty Mutual (designing claims and innovation lab products). An active open-source contributor, she’s improved usability and documentation across notable IPFS projects, enhancing WebUI, browser companion, and docs that support decentralized web adoption. Jessica excels at rebuilding teams and programs into sustainable operations, having rebooted CU Boulder's student radio into a thriving, volunteer-driven station with fundraising and cross-campus partnerships. Based in Boulder, she pairs analytical information-architecture instincts with creative roots in journalism and DJing, bringing a rare mix of editorial clarity, technical craft, and community-focused leadership.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS BA Journalism Music, BS BA Journalism Music at University of Colorado Boulder
Spanish, German
Github Skills (23)
content-management-system10
javascript10
firefox-webextension10
css10
ipfs10
user-interface10
firefox-addon10
ui-design10
chrome-extension10
graphical-user-interface10
google-chrome-extension10
vuepress10
content-management10
html10
webextension10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ipfs/ipfs-docs
Oct 2019 - Jul 2021
📚IPFS documentation platform
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:51 reviews, 403 commits, 173 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Jessica primarily contributed to the project by updating and restructuring the documentation. They modified the left navigation menu, added external links, and corrected typos, while also refactoring existing pages and integrating new documentation. Furthermore, the user integrated content from external sources and case studies, enhancing the informational depth of the project's documentation.
ipfs-docsipfsbounties
ipfs/ipfs-webui
Mar 2020 - Mar 2021
A frontend for an IPFS Kubo and IPFS Desktop
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:57 reviews, 32 commits, 51 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Jessica primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and user experience of the IPFS WebUI. Their contributions include adjusting the height of the PDF viewer, addressing accessibility issues related to contrast, and streamlining the navigation bar for a cleaner appearance. They also made various improvements to the welcome page and remove modal, with language and layout refinements. Additionally, the user has worked on file management features within the WebUI.
ipfsreactp2pjavascriptweb3
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