# Jennifer Peshansky > Software Engineer Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jenniferpeshansky I believe that coding, writing, and magic are all just different tools for solving problems and helping people. I read a lot of fantasy when I was younger. I particularly enjoyed fantasy with a twist, the kind that hid messages about the real world under a translucent layer of fiction. My favorites were Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels. These books contained both witches and wizards; each could do magic, and each were their own metaphor. Wizards were academics; they lived at Unseen University, conducted research and experiments, and tended to be flashy with their magic. But witches were practical. Witches took an area and made it their responsibility. Whenever anyone in that area needed medicine, advice, help, or - yes - magic, witches were there. Wizards did whatever they wanted. Witches did what needed to be done. I always wanted to believe magic was real. I wanted to believe that if I studied and worked hard, then someday I could whisper a few words and make things happen on their own, magically. But as I got older, I realized that magic already is real, and it’s all around us. Pharmacologists mix healing potions and sell them in pill form. People have face-to-face conversations with distant loved ones through portals held in phones and tablets. And writing a few special words to make things happen - that’s coding. I think that was what first drew me to computer science; the fact that coding is magic. But what keeps me in computer science is the true purpose of Sir Terry’s witchcraft; not the magic itself, but the potential that it has to help ordinary people. I’m a computer scientist. If anybody needs my help, I’m there - to work with others, solve difficult problems, make people’s lives easier, and - yes - code. I do what needs to be done. And that is something I can be proud of. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Ocient Jan 2023 – Jan 2026 | Chicago, Illinois, United States ### Software Engineer II @ MongoDB Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States ### Software Engineer Intern @ MongoDB Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | New York City Metropolitan Area Document Validation --Contributed to a project that provided users with detailed and actionable errors for document validation failures by implementing error generation for various cases (C++) --Implemented end-to-end integration tests, unit tests, and logging to ensure that document validation failures produced detailed errors and that error generation was working correctly (JavaScript) ### Summer Analyst @ Citi Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Jersey City, New Jersey Database UI --Created a web application that would allow teammates to monitor and edit a trading database. --Built an independent backend that created queries to read from the database and posted the information, and wrote to the database using input from the frontend. (Spring Boot, Hibernate, MS SQL Server) --Designed and created a human-readable, interactive frontend that displayed data, alerted users when data did not meet a certain standard, and allowed administrators to set those standards. (Angular 8) ### Volunteer @ Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Yonkers, New York HL7 Pipeline --Designed Java pipeline for HL7 messages to JSON format. (HAPI, Maven) --Created configurations for different kinds of HL7 messages. (Spring Boot) ### Intern @ ALICE - Hospitality Operations Platform Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | New York, New York Quality Assurance - Regression Testing --Designed and performed unit regression tests for existing & newly built software. --Independently designed full suite of unit tests for newly built web scraping tools. ## Education ### B.S. in Computer Science Stony Brook University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jennifer-peshansky --- Source: https://flows.cv/jenniferpeshansky JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jenniferpeshansky/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30