Jennifer "Jenn" Strater

enabled the 50k+ volunteers nationwide and 20k+ in battleground states to send millions of text messages per day

constrained by integration tools with 1rps rate limit, still managed to handle 7rps spikes in a system built with Ratpack, Groovy, Redis, Caffeine, Dropwizard, and more

transformed 5+ GB CSV files from vendors into s3 and spectrum tables

created slack bots to integrate with texting program security

performed website QA especially a11y and i18n

improved build performance and security with CodeKit, npm, and Gradle

wrote Java and Groovy-based POCs for Gradle and Gradle Enterprise features using both the Groovy and Kotlin Gradle DSLs

maintained the infrastructure for various documentation projects using Asciidoc, Jekyll, Gradle, GitHub Pages, TeamCity, IntelliJ Idea, and more

acted as an intermediary between the millions of Gradle developers and Gradle’s engineering teams including basic support, providing references to the relevant documentation, and escalating as needed

Promoted Gradle as a thought leader in Developer Productivity

set long-term strategy with upper-level management

led collaborative projects with engineering, marketing, and sales

managed the event and content strategy for advocacy topics

reviewed content and code for Developer Advocacy and other teams

maintained a Grails-based internal admin dashboard to monitor millions of transactions per day

added static analysis and code coverage tooling into the build pipeline increasing stability and reducing bugs in the codebase

architected and implemented backend APIs

led the project and completed a majority of the work for a Grails 3.0.17 to 3.3.6 migration. This included updates to the relevant dependencies and build tools.

was responsible for various leadership tasks related to