Jillian Vogel
Senior Software Engineer at Euka Future Learning
Adelaide, South Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJillian Vogel is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of professional experience building full-stack systems and shaping Open edX deployments from backend APIs to responsive React frontends. Based in Adelaide, she combines deep Python/Django and TypeScript/React expertise with practical DevOps skills in Docker, Kubernetes and Linux, and has contributed stability and grading API improvements to the flagship openedx/edx-platform. As a founding member of OpenCraft’s core contributor program and current Tech Lead at Euka Future Learning, she leads plugin development, coding standards and deployment automation while mentoring teams in self-managing cells. Her work uniquely spans both product-facing features and the infra that reliably delivers them—she’s migrated CI and HTTPS configs, modernized Jenkins to Groovy DSL, and tuned analytics deployments. Colleagues rely on her for clean, extensible architectures and thoughtful open source engagement that gives back to the community.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at University of Iowa
Github Skills (17)
python10
apidoc10
groovy10
django10
testing10
api10
ansible10
jenkins10
ansible-galaxy10
jenkins-ci10
nginx10
data-service9
dockers9
webservice9
docker9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
openedx/edx-platform
Apr 2016 - Jan 2023
The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:513 reviews, 134 commits, 192 PRs in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jillian primarily focused on improving the stability and functionality of the Open edX platform. Their commits involved resolving optimization errors in the require.js optimizer, updating URL schemes in bulk email functionalities to use http or https appropriately, and ensuring appropriate URL schemes in bulk emails based on settings. The user also contributed to the grading API and contributed tests to ensure that those changes worked. These changes indicate a focus on the back-end components of the platform.
edxlmssitesbackend-serviceopen-edx
openedx-unsupported/configuration
Mar 2016 - Jan 2022
A collection of edx configuration scripts and utilities that edx.org uses to deploy openedx.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:70 reviews, 73 commits, 97 PRs in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jillian primarily focused on enhancing the infrastructure and automation aspects of the edx-openedx configuration repository. They made significant changes to the Jenkins setup, including converting the seed job to Groovy DSL, adding credential management, and configuring HTTPS. Further contributions involved updating nginx configurations, specifically around proxying and HTTPS redirects, and improving the deployment process for the analytics API. Their work also included modifications to the HOTG configuration.
pythonconfiguration-managementansibleedxconfiguration-scripts
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