# Jenna L. > Supporting sustainable finance at Crux Location: United States, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jennal ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Crux Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### Staff Software Engineer @ Lattice Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 • Led migration of product backend to new service to enable faster future development. Managed cross-team dependencies, release details, and adoption of new technologies. • Made fullstack contributions to the first benchmarks product release, including owning the product backend. ### Engineering Manager @ Lattice Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 • Led the engineering side of the first iteration of the Compensation Cycles product. Partnered closely with product managers, designers, and tech leads to define scope and timelines across two teams. Owned project sequencing and supported engineers in planning and managing projects. • Cultivated a psychologically safe, high-trust culture. • Doubled my team from 3 to 6 engineers. Held weekly one-on-ones and monthly career conversations. • Advocated for engineers with underrepresented genders. Helped organize and facilitate Lattice's first internal conference for this group, as well as the formation of the forEach ERG. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Lattice Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area • Led the anonymous survey comment replies project. Owned technical planning, ticket writing, project sequencing, and test planning. Partnered closely with product and design to finalize edge cases. • Founded the A11y Guild, a group of engineers that are passionate about accessibility and building inclusive products. Owned biweekly meeting where the team discussed articles and completed an online web accessibility course, wrote best practices documentation, determined the group's roadmap, and facilitated multiple bug bashes. • Improved and introduced processes on my team, including test plan documentation, recurring pairing/coworking sessions, and costing (tickets and projects). ### Team Lead and Senior Software Engineer, Web @ Patreon Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 • As the team lead on Growth, scoped engineering work, developed timelines, wrote Jira tickets, ran scrum ceremonies, built supportive team culture, and collaborated closely with product, design, and external stakeholders. The team of four engineers completed 11 experiments and contributed to 2 tracks of longer-term work in a quarter. ### Software Engineer, Web @ Patreon Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area • Utilized React and product input to build a tool that increased creators’ new pledge revenue by 200% on average, compared to the previous month. • Tech lead on a project to update UI/UX, improve performance, and address technical debt on the most highly-trafficked page on Patreon. • Championed web accessibility through leading multiple trainings, writing documentation on testing and development, and giving a company-wide presentation. ### Software Systems Engineer @ MITRE Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Tysons Corner, VA • Led frontend development and design on a project to automate work at the IRS. • Improved code quality and team process through knowledge-sharing sessions, group code reviews, pairing, and documentation on four projects. • Started initiative to develop department values with the management team. • Co-led weekly lightning talk sessions to promote continuous learning and engagement. ### Associate Software Engineer @ MicroStrategy Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Tysons Corner, VA • Used React and Java to build products to create and consume data visualizations. • Organized a team of four to create an end-to-end accessibility test suite using Jasmine and Protractor. ### Musician @ Potbelly Sandwich Works Jan 2009 – Jan 2014 • Sang and played guitar for guests, created close relationships with managers, other workers, and other local musicians. ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Computer Science, Psychology; minor in Mathematics University of Virginia ### Master's degree in Computer Science Georgia Institute of Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jnl3 --- Source: https://flows.cv/jennal JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jennal/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01