Jessy Schingler - Law Clerk at Edmund Hillary Fellowship (EHF)

Jessy Schingler

Law Clerk at Edmund Hillary Fellowship (EHF)

San Francisco, California, United States

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Jessy Schingler is a legal and technology specialist with 16 years of experience at the intersection of software engineering, space policy, and nonprofit governance. Based in San Francisco, she combines hands-on engineering work (including backend Django contributions for survey tooling) with deep practice advising exempt organizations, tax matters, and formation/dissolution processes as a law clerk. Her background spans avionics software at Astra and cloud and civic-data engineering at NASA and Sunlight Foundation, giving her a rare mix of technical depth and policy fluency. A long-time leader in space governance—co-leading Open Lunar Foundation and affiliating with Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center—she focuses on equitable, sustainable human settlements on Earth and beyond. She is completing PhD work in public law in Paris while drawing on graduate CS training and an astrophysics undergraduate degree to bridge law, technology, and long-term societal challenges.

16 years of coding experience

11 years of employment as a software developer

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Public Law, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Public Law at Paris-Pantheon-Assas University

PhD Coursework Computer Science, PhD Coursework Computer Science at University of Maryland

Bachelor of Science (BSc) Astrophysics, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Astrophysics at Queen's University

Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at Naval Postgraduate School

python, mathematics, Spanish, javascript

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Github Skills (11)

python10

django10

html9

css7

javascript7

macos6

google-chrome6

tinymce6

http-request6

microdata6

easy-install6

Programming languages (5)

CSSJavaScriptHTMLRubyPython

Github contributions (5)

jessykate/django-survey

Dec 2012 - Sep 2013

a simple django framework for creating and conducting surveys

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:15 commits in 9 months

Contributions summary:Jessy primarily focused on developing features for a Django-based survey application. Their contributions involved implementing different question types, including text, radio, select, and integer. They modified the models, forms, and views to support these new question types and to ensure correct data handling and display. Additionally, the user implemented a privacy statement and enhanced the front-end with features such as collapsible sections and question numbering.

pythondjango-frameworkdjango-rest-frameworkdjangosurveys

jessykate/streamLDA

Nov 2010 - Mar 2015

Contributions:56 commits, 1 push in 4 years 4 months

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