Melissa Jansson
Advanced Placement United States World History Teacher
Linköping, Östergötland County, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMelissa Jansson is an educator-entrepreneur with 15+ years of experience designing programs, curriculum, and consumer products that produce measurable results. As an AP U.S. and World History teacher she raised AP pass rates from 52% to 65% in one year and has driven near-100% pass rates for IGCSE/A-Level courses internationally through data-driven instruction and authentic learning experiences. She founded a consumer brand—overseeing design, manufacturing, web presence, and a federal trademark—bringing classroom project-management skills to product launch and operations. Melissa pairs creative storytelling (she developed and pitched a reality TV concept that secured a meeting within days) with technical curiosity, contributing backend changes and benchmarks to an open-source C memory allocator on GitHub. Based in Linköping with a MAT in Education and a background in journalism and art history, she excels at cross-functional collaboration, content strategy, and building programs that scale. Colleagues describe her as a resourceful problem-solver who converts ideas into tangible systems and outcomes.
15 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Art History, minor in Journalism, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Art History, minor in Journalism at University of MinnesotaMAT, Education, MAT, Education at Oregon State University-Cascades
Github Skills (7)
c1710
memory-allocation10
c1110
concurrency9
testing9
benchmarking9
benchmark9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mjansson/rpmalloc
Nov 2016 - Jan 2023
Public domain cross platform lock free thread caching 16-byte aligned memory allocator implemented in C
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 17 reviews, 455 commits in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Melissa made several changes to the source code of the `rpmalloc` project, starting with the initial implementation and including benchmark additions. Their contributions focused on building and testing the memory allocator, including adding test cases for different sizes. They also added features to the build system.
memorymultithreadinglockthreadmmap
mjansson/image_lib
Mar 2018 - May 2022
Contributions:36 commits, 44 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 2 months
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