Jen Trudell

Senior Software Engineer

Chicago, Illinois, United States15 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led data center teams at GitHub.
Expert in Ruby and Go programming.
Transitioned from law to software engineering.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Infrastructure Engineer in the SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

InfrastructureBackend DevelopmentApi DevelopmentCloud ComputingMicroservicesFrontend DevelopmentWeb Development

Other Skills

RubyGoPythonRailsSinatraPostgreSQLNeo4jDockerHerokuAWSMySQLMongoDBKubernetesGCPRabbitMQ

About

I am a software engineer. I lead the data center teams within the infrastructure org at GitHub, which are responsible for all GitHub's data centers and the thousands of servers within them. I like infra, Ruby, Go, Vim, getting things done and grumbling to myself. I also used to be a lawyer (don't tell anyone).

Experience

15 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Github

4 roles

Staff Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

Manager of Hybrid Infra and Azure Sites teams

Senior Software Engineering Manager, Network and Physical Infrastructure

Oct 2023 – Mar 2024 · 5 mos

I manage both the physical infrastructure (aka datacenter and bare metal servers) and network teams at GitHub. I also lead a team of approximately 20 infrastructure operations contractors. Together we make GitHub run.

Senior Software Engineering Manager, Physical Infrastructure

Promoted

Aug 2022 – Nov 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos

I lead a fantastic group of people that make up the Physical Infrastructure team at GitHub. We are in charge of GitHub's data centers, designing the racks and selecting and deploying the bare metal servers that run in them, and building the tooling that enables internal teams to deploy to our machines. In short, we make GitHub run.

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Sep 2020 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos

As a software engineer on the Physical Infrastructure team I worked on improving legacy systems and tooling around server management in Ruby, Go and Python. I automated inefficient processes to allow internal teams at GitHub to get more done on our servers.

RubyGoPythonInfrastructureBackend Development

Ascent

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2020 – Sep 2020 · 0 mo

Software Engineer

Oct 2019 – Sep 2020 · 11 mos

Backend software engineer working primarily in and with Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, PostgreSQL, Neo4j, Docker, Heroku and AWS. I built a customer-facing API to serve customers who wanted to consume our data without going through our web app, and then moved on to a team where I focused on stability and cost-savings, including migrating our Heroku databases to AWS Aurora and optimizing autoscaling of our web servers and workers. I am now working on our internal tooling and data science teams to efficiently process regulatory documents.

RubyRailsSinatraPostgreSQLNeo4jDocker+4

Sittercity

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2019 – Oct 2019 · 9 mos · Greater Chicago Area

As a member of the platform team, I am responsible for 1) shipping new features in our Go and Ruby APIs, 2) writing cloud functions in Python that leverage PubSub for asynchronous image processing, 3) working with Mysql, Postgres and Mongo databases, and 4) deploying with Kubernetes hosted on GCP.

GoRubyPythonMySQLPostgreSQLMongoDB+4

Reviewtrackers

Senior Backend Engineer

Nov 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · Chicago, Illinois

Shipping new features and maintaining our API written in Go, microservices in Ruby/Sinatra and Python, Postgresql databases and RabbitMQ async messaging. Deploying to Heroku, and always testing, testing, testing.

GoRubyPythonPostgreSQLRabbitMQAPI Development+1

Iloan, a onemain brand

Software Engineer

Aug 2016 – Nov 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos · Chicago

Backend engineer working in Rails, writing tests in Rspec, and databasing in Postgres. I also help out on the frontend as needed (and because it is fun) in React, Ember and plain-old JS and HTML/CSS.

RailsRSpecPostgreSQLReactEmberJavaScript+4

Mortgagehippo, inc.

Software Engineer

Feb 2016 – Aug 2016 · 6 mos · Chicago

Worked in React, Redux, Javascript/ES6, JSX, Ruby/Rails, Node, HTML, CSS/Sass, and a bit of PHP and Wordpress. Wrote e2e tests on React site using Karma, Mocha and Chai.

ReactReduxJavaScriptRubyRailsNode+4

Exoneration project at the university of chicago

Freelancer

Dec 2015 – Jan 2016 · 1 mo · Chicago

Developed an intake website for the Exoneration Project, which provides legal representation to innocent people who are incarcerated for crimes they did not commit. The website is built on Rails and allows users to register, login and submit intake applications describing cases to be considered by the Exoneration Project. The website also has admin user functionality so that employees of the Exoneration Project can fully manage applications, cases and case status through an admin dashboard.

RailsRubyJavaScriptWeb Development

Goldberg kohn ltd.

Senior Attorney

Jan 2010 – Jun 2015 · 5 yrs 5 mos · Chicago

Counseled and represented both asset-based and cash-flow lenders, ranging from large banks to specialized finance firms, in a variety of secured commercial finance transactions, generally providing loan facilities of $20 million to $200 million dollars, including asset-based, cash-flow, and cross-border loans, as well as refinancing and restructuring existing loan facilities. Supervised teams of associates, paralegals and local and foreign outside counsels. Extensive experience in client-facing roles; aptitude for assessing and managing client expectations.