Jessica Scott
Engineering Lead at HubSpot
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJessica Scott is an experienced engineering lead with over a decade of hands-on software development and two decades since earning a BS in Computer Science from MIT. Based in Somerville, MA, she has risen through technical roles at HubSpot to lead engineering and tech teams, combining strong problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder empathy to align engineering work with business goals. Her background spans web and application architecture, front-end leadership on healthcare financial products, and early research in context-aware and computer-vision interfaces at the MIT Media Lab. She actively contributes to open-source, notably improving HubSpot’s jinjava Java template engine by hardening date handling and loop processing, reflecting a focus on reliable core systems. Known for adapting quickly to varied requirements, she balances deep technical refactoring with pragmatic product-minded decisions. Colleagues rely on her to translate complex requirements into maintainable, test-covered solutions.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (5)
unit-testing10
javas10
template-engine10
jinjava10
java10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
HubSpot/jinjava
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Jinja template engine for Java
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 8 pushes in 5 days
Contributions summary:Jessica primarily focused on enhancing the Jinjava template engine for Java. Their contributions involved modifying the engine to correctly handle and wrap date objects within lists and maps, as well as resolving properties within these data structures. They also refactored code to improve efficiency, specifically concerning how data is processed within for loops, and added new tests for date handling. These commits indicate a focus on improving the core functionality and data handling of the Jinjava engine.
template-enginetemplatejinjajinja-templatejava
jessbrandi/homebridge-smartthings
Jan 2022 - Feb 2022
SmartThings Homebridge Plugin
Contributions:2 pushes in 28 days
smartthingshomebridgehomekithomebridge-plugin
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