Engineering Manager @ Optimizely is the leading experience optimization platform for A/B testing and personalization. In 5 years we’ve grown to become #1 in the category with 7,500+ paying customers including Microsoft Bing, NBC Universal, and Bleacher Report. We've raised $146 million to grow internationally and open offices around the world.
* As an individual contributor engineer, started the web editor team and also became the product owner, responsible for bug and feature prioritization and releases
* Developed a Chrome Extension for use by customers, the customer success team, partner agencies, and the sales team to enhance use of the product
* Led a team of 4 people working on the new user experience during the launch of the Optimizely mobile product
* Manages all teams dealing with how customers interact directly with our products: a 6 person engineering team responsible for creating, building, and launching the new Optimizely Personalization product and a 7 person engineering team responsible for maintaining and improving Optimizely's chief product, A/B Testing
* Created the Optimizely I/Own It Scholarship which supports women trying to enter the software engineering world via a scholarship to Hack Reactor, mentorship, and an internship at Optimizely
* Project manager for the Optimizely grassroots Pride Parade float From February 2014 to Present (1 year 11 months) San Francisco Bay AreaMember of Technical Staff @ Goal was to create a product to teach programming to kids as young as 5 years old through tangible play.
* First engineer, pre-seed before product was finalized
* Integral part of developing original robots (Dot and Dash), user testing, and developing the initial plans and proof of concepts for the programming learning targeted for ages 5 and up
* Single-handedly coded, deployed, monitored, and maintained full web application for a successful crowdfunding campaign that raised $1.44M in 30 days with over 10,000 robots reserved From April 2013 to February 2014 (11 months) Director of Robot Alchemy @ Scribd is a digital library. Originally starting as a document hub, it now features e-book subscriptions.
+ Invented the Scribd robot fruit challenge on the jobs page, which in less than a month received over 1600 code submissions
+ Interviewed over 100 candidates of which 11 offers were given and 8 offers accepted. Gave a company-wide talk on conducting technical interviews
+ Recruited at the Carnegie Mellon job fair, bringing back and reviewing 181 hand-submitted resumes
+ Ran two Hackdays, everything from figuring out when, how, what constraints, making sure everyone had a project/team etc.
+ Coded Scribd's SOPA protest with words disappearing off page
+ Instigated and lead teams for April Fools’ Day in 2011 (document turns into Breakout game with words as bricks) and 2012 (document folds into a paper airplane to be sent)
+ Works directly with the Chief Scientist as peers on the research and development team
- Developed algorithm to detect how to autowrap text when zooming and serialize document and metadata in a space-efficient manner for our Android app
- Improved title generation for documents
- Reflowed Word documents into flowing text
- Using machine-learning techniques and feature detection to categorize documents
+ Converting EPub formatted files to Scribd's reflowable content format
+ Worked closely with iOS team to write headless backend for iPhone application which managed over a billion articles from several tens of thousands of sources
+ With Chief Scientist, built robotic skeleton go-kart driver From January 2011 to April 2013 (2 years 4 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Developer and Lead Platform Engineer @ webs.com is a website creation service enabling users to create blogs, photo albums, video galleries, discussion forums, and more without any code.
* Work directly with third-party developers who develop on the webs.com platform (http://wiki.developers.webs.com/wiki/Main_Page)
* Build features for the platform
* Mentor interns
* Design, build and test Spring MVC web applications from scratch front-to-back.
* Design efficient data models that can scale and optimize the data access using Hibernate and Spring templates.
* Create unit tests and integration tests using Spring Test Framework and JUnit 4.
* Develop software iteratively and deliver working code each iteration.
* Performance tune and scale web applications to handle 500K-1M pageviews per day.
* Work with product and design teams to come up with the best user experience and application flow.
* Review application with stakeholders each iteration From March 2009 to January 2011 (1 year 11 months) Software Developer @ IMAKE Consulting provided data, analytics and modeling
software and services to the structured finance community, and was acquired by Standard and Poor's.
Developed and supported structured finance analytic and modeling software. From January 2008 to March 2009 (1 year 3 months) Software Developer @ Overture Technologies created automated underwriting software for student loans and mortgages.
Worked on full-life cycle production of web applications (both front-end and back-end) for the student loan industry including credit report retrieval and processing via Equifax, Transunion, Experian, and Credco. From September 2006 to January 2008 (1 year 5 months) Volunteer Researcher and Team Leader of Middle Size League Robotic Soccer Team @ o Helped advise a course on RoboCup with an enrollment of two graduate students and five undergraduate students.
o In 2006, joined efforts with Mälardalens University from Sweden and qualified for RoboCup 2006 in Bremen, Germany.
o In 2005, advised Smokin’ Jays 2005, a team of about ten undergraduate students.
o Wrote the world model system for the robots, taking sensory information from the five robots and creating axioms about game states and field positions.
o Also worked on getting the vision to work together with the robot interface.
o Demonstrated at American Open 2005 at Georgia Tech.
o Was the only US Middle Size team to qualify for RoboCup 2005 in Osaka, Japan.
o This project was done in C++. From December 2004 to August 2006 (1 year 9 months) Analyst @ HPTi is a technology services company focusing on government contracts.
Developed various Java-based web applications for the FDA, IRS, VA, and FBI. Projects were certified at CMMI Level 2 and working towards CMMI Level 3 certification. From August 2004 to August 2006 (2 years 1 month) Researcher @ Worked under Manuela Veloso and Brett Browning in the CORAL lab on F180 robots as part of CMDragons, traveling to Italy and Portugal to compete in Robocup. I was at American Open '03 (1st place), RoboCup '03 (4th place), and RoboCup '04 (4th place). My main research focus was multi-agent learning and cooperation. From 2002 to 2004 (2 years) Contractor @ Web application development for a start-up making music recommendations directly based off of mp3s without using metadata. From 2001 to 2001 (less than a year) Intern @ Wrote software for the Optical Technology Division including stepper motor code for a colorimeter, a web interface for a weather beacon, and a data processor for data from a Fourier Transform microwave spectrometer. From 1999 to 2001 (2 years)
BS, Computer Science with minors in Mathematical Sciences, Political Science, and Robotics @ Carnegie Mellon UniversityMath, Science, Computer Science Magnet Program @ Montgomery Blair HS Jennifer Lin is skilled in: Java, SQL, jQuery, Ruby on Rails, Spring, CSS, Git, C++, Web Applications, Web Development, Hibernate, Spring Framework, Algorithms
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