# Jane Willborn

> Tech Enthusiast- love dev tools, communities, and education

Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/janewillborn

## Work Experience
### Senior User Experience Designer @ Curriculum Associates
Jan 2023 – Present
Math assessments and design systems for iReady

### User Experience Designer @ Amplify
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
-Led UX for a new math assessment product built from scratch for K-6. 
-Ideation on data visualizations for teachers, support for sales and marketing, and student journey and views for youth navigating digital products. 
-Organized a design system for assessments and built onto the existing K-5 design system, working in strong collaboration with UX research team. 
-Strong advocate across teams for accessibility and usability, particularly in the K-2 space.

### UX Designer @ Novelly
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
-Created user journey for middle school reading app on mobile
-Designed student views for the user flow
-Edited design guidelines with particular consideration for accessibility 
-Collaborated with stakeholders on preparation for potential future functionality

### Developer Relations @ Uiflow
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
- Journey mapping, user personas, market research, and UX design for onboarding experience and in-app documentation
- Created documentation from scratch along with video tutorials
- Completed over 120 half hour demo sessions and user interviews with analysis
- Led user outreach including emails and weekly webinars

### Developer @ Stack Overflow
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Remote
-Full Stack Dev on Stack Overflow public platform, which gets about 30 million visits per month. 
-Worked around the stack, from creating new badges using complex SQL queries to editing suggestions for similar questions using typescript and ElasticSearch, and changing the way the lock system works for posts in C#.Net. 
-Taught coding classes for non-technical members of the company and mentored junior devs.
-Participated in discussions with designers, PMs, and the data team to create and assess data-driven projects and encourage healthy content moderation and engagement with users.

### Web Developer Apprentice @ Stack Overflow
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Remote
-A/B test for question wizard that launched Thanksgiving 2018
-Created a separate area for new users to put questions for guidance on how to format them before posting to regular Stack Overflow- a "sandbox" for question design
-Worked on some of the oldest C# and JS code in the Stack codebase with a 10 year old legacy
-Consistent basher of bugs

### Software Engineering Apprentice @ Microsoft
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Seattle Area
-Attended a month-long course that focused on OOP, abstraction, and unit testing 
-Conducted user interviews for users with a11y concerns and organized accessibility workshop 
-Created a11y compliant accessibility features like focus and keyboard shortcuts to cross-platform browser extension for OneNote
-Shipped version 3.8 of the OneNote WebClipper 6/20/2018

### Business Development Manager @ Rocen Digital Technology
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Beijing City, China
-Translated over 700 pages of a martial arts anime 
-Coordinated discussions for product placement with major US corporations 
-Created market reports for expansion into Southeast Asia, particularly focusing on social media strategies

### Business Development Manager @ Cangfuhui
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Beijing City, China
-Signed 12 online influencers with over 20,000 followers as VIP members on our video Q&A social media platform
-Organized promotional marketing events in 3 incubators
-Participated in product design meetings and beta testing
-Assisted in operations for all of our social media platforms (WeChat, Toutiao, Baidu Tieba, and QQ).

### Journalist, Editor, and Translator @ Women of China
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Beijing City, China
-Made Chinese to English translations of news articles, edited English articles, and worked as a journalist focusing on the arts and feminist events held in the capital city. 
-Regularly updated social media for Women of China. 
-Primary translator for the book "Families in China," published 2016.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computational Linguistics
University of Washington

### Chinese Language
Xi'an Jiaotong University

### Chinese Language and Civilization in Bachelor's
University of Colorado Boulder

### Dev Bootcamp


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/janewillborn

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Last updated: 2026-03-29