Stephen Jennings is an experienced Physical Education leader with 14+ years at Saddleback Valley Christian Schools, currently serving as Department Head and long-tenured PE teacher in Mission Viejo, CA. He holds a BS in Kinesiology and Exercise Science from Cal State Fullerton and combines curriculum leadership with hands-on coaching and program management. Beyond education, Stephen contributes technical skills to open-source software—working on the jj Git-compatible version control system where he implemented conflict-resolution UIs, private-commit controls, and test coverage—demonstrating an uncommon blend of instructional leadership and practical backend/DevOps engineering. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who brings structure to both athletic programs and software projects, prioritizing clear governance and reproducible processes. He is committed to student development and continuous improvement, applying lessons from software tooling to streamline operations and policy enforcement in the school environment.
14 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BS), Kinesiology and Exercise Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Kinesiology and Exercise Science at Cal State Fullerton
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A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful
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Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:66 reviews, 22 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the `jj` version control system. Their work involved implementing features for conflict resolution, including displaying resolved conflicts in the command-line interface. They also added functionality for managing private commits, a critical feature for repository governance, and incorporated setting to prevent commits from being pushed based on defined criteria. Furthermore, the user addressed issues by creating unit tests, along with features to enable configuration options for tools and adding functions for managing date ranges.
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 1 month
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