Jessie Keck
Software Engineering Manager at Ontra
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJessie Keck is a software engineering manager with 16 years of experience leading cross-functional teams to automate legal workflows and deliver customer-focused products at Ontra. She combines hands-on Ruby on Rails and front-end expertise (React, jQuery) with disciplined practices like TDD, SOLID, and accessible development to coach teams that ship reliable, maintainable code. Her background at Stanford and contributions to prominent open-source projects such as Blacklight and Mirador reflect a long-standing commitment to digital collections and rich UI discovery tools. Known for balancing management and coding—“writing code when they let me”—she still contributes meaningful patches across full-stack domains. Jessie’s career shows a pattern of improving user-facing interfaces and backend integrations, from Solr-powered discovery to annotation-enabled viewers. Based in California, she brings institutional-scale experience and an engineer’s attention to sustainable development practices.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Diploma at West Bay
Github Skills (16)
css10
uid10
javascript10
rails10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
solr10
blacklight10
ruby-on-rails10
react10
annotate9
annotations9
jquery8
iiif8
apidoc7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
projectblacklight/blacklight
Apr 2010 - Mar 2021
Blacklight provides a discovery interface for any Solr (http://lucene.apache.org/solr) index.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 3 reviews, 150 commits in 11 years
Contributions summary:Jessie primarily worked on enhancing the Blacklight discovery interface, a Ruby on Rails application for Solr indexes. Their commits focused on refining the user interface by adding features like jQuery popups and refining the layout. They also addressed backend aspects by improving the export features and implementing search history functionality. Furthermore, they contributed to core code, including refactoring the installation template and improving versioning.
solrrubydiscovery-interfacerails-engineblacklight
ProjectMirador/mirador
Feb 2017 - Mar 2021
An open-source, web-based 'multi-up' viewer that supports zoom-pan-rotate functionality, ability to display/compare simple images, and images with annotations.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 1 review, 251 commits in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jessie primarily worked on improving the user interface of the Mirador viewer. They refactored components such as `WorkspaceControlPanel`, `Window`, and `WindowTopBar`. They made changes to styling and positioning elements using CSS and also implemented new features such as a toggle button for the window side bar. Their contributions also included adding a canvas index panel, and adding functionality to the annotation tools.
openseadragonrotateannotationsiiifjavascript
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