# Jen Lipton

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: Portland, Oregon, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jenlipton

User-driven, front-end developer with a strong focus on accessibility and inclusivity in design and architecture.  I am passionate about ethical and beautiful programming and thrive by engaging with strong teams and facilitating access and equity in technology.  

Bonus: I come with science facts and dog pictures.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Ignite Reading
Jan 2024 – Present

### Lead Engineer @ EducationSuperHighway
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024

### Software Engineer @ EducationSuperHighway
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024

### Software Engineer II @ Nike
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Portland, Oregon, United States

### Software Engineer @ Nike @ VanderHouwen
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Portland, Oregon Area

### Software Engineer @ Adobe
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Portland, Oregon Area

### Android Engineer @ Kroger Technology
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Portland, Oregon Area

### Frontend CRO Developer (Contract) @ The Good
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Portland, Oregon Area
Built enterprise and e-commerce web and mobile components from wireframes and implement A/B tests on a variety of websites using VWO and jQuery.  Strategic focus on optimizing CRO.

### Front End Developer and Lead Designer @ Alchemy Code Lab
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Portland, Oregon Area
Led up UX/UI design and frontend functionality for a video and media-based review app with a confidential startup using React and SCSS.  Part of Agile team building out further functionality in the app based on Firebase and Node, including Webpack, React Router, and Google Maps API.

### Advanced Full-Stack Software Development Training @ Alchemy Code Lab
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Portland, Oregon Area
800+ hour of professional programming training, featuring a deep dive into engineering patterns and project skills, based on the MERN stack (MongoDB + Mongoose / Express / React + Redux / Node).  
• 3 part program focusing on, respectively, a deep dive into vanilla JavaScript, SPA app development and RESTful APIs, and full-stack React apps with MongoDB + Mongoose.   
• A small-cohort based learning experience highlighting team dynamics and independent problem solving.  Rigorous training focusing both on clean code and team-building, individual problem solving, and TDD testing.

### Web Developer @ Contractor
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Greater Boston Area
• 25+ client personal and commercial projects on cPanel and Wordpress.
• Honed a strong ability to communicate with each client in order to design and optimize a site and a platform suited to their needs. 
• Maintained sites through multiple versions.

### Wolf Research Extern @ Wolf Park
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Battle Ground, IN
• Designed and presented daily educational talks on canid behavior, and pressing conservation issues.
• Research internship involving intensive animal care training, proper research methods, data collection, and training in scientific communication.
• Returned to complete an externship for my 40-page undergraduate thesis mining over 1000 hours of previously unorganized behavior data, titled “Naive Hunters: Large prey selection in captive wolves (Canis lupus).” 
• Socialization of both young predators and young children.


## Education
### Advanced Full-Stack Software Development
Alchemy Code Lab
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018

### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Biology & Behavior
Bennington College
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014

### Mediation in Alternative Dispute Resolution
Bennington College
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012

### Fine and Studio Arts
New York University
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010


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

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Source: https://flows.cv/jenlipton
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jenlipton/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22