work & talks
jobs
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fastly (acquired glitch) β director of community (may 2022 -
september 2024)
- glitch β director of community (august 2018 - may 2022)
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fog creek β community engineer, glitch π (february 2017 - august
2018)
- bocoup β open web engineer (april 2014 - february 2017)
- nba π β senior front-end developer (july 2013 - april 2014)
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montclair state university β department administrator (july 2011 -
may 2013)
- baristanet β web developer (april 2008 - april 2014)
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montclair state university β graduate assistant and adjunct
(september 2007 - 2011)
education
- montclair state university β master of computer science
- montclair state university β bachelor of computer science
organizations
- womenβs prison association β honorary emerging philanthropist
- jerseyscript meetup β founder, organizer
- brooklynjs meetup - emcee, co-organizer
speaking experience
highlights:
podcasts i've been a guest on
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the dev stream, january 2022
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sustain oss, november 2020
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stack overflow podcast, may 2020
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shift shift forward, april 2020
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policy viz, january 2018
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mozilla's irl podcast, january 2018
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indiedotes, august 2017
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greater than code, july 2017
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stack overflow podcast (guest host)
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js party, march 2017
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stack overflow podcast, march 2017
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greater than code, february 2017
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studio360, march 2015
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javascript jabber, december 2014
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codenewbie, december 2014
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strange beings, august 2014
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ladies in tech, may 2014
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frip frap, february 2014
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shop talk show, october 2013
workshops i've given
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"welcome to my guestbook - going from static to full-stack on
glitch" - dinosaur js, june 2018
- "decoded: intro to javascript" - the wing, december 2017
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"building a better web with glitch" - devfest nyc, december 2017
- "decoded: intro to css and a11y" - the wing, november 2017
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"decoded: intro to the web and html" - the wing, november 2017
- "intro to js and twitter bots" - Tufts WIT, october 2017
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"going front-end to full-stack with glitch" - empireconf, october
2017
conference & meetup talks
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every community is a winding road - community-led summit, april
2024
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"condemned to compute" - causal islands, april 2023
- "javascript after dark" - jsconf eu, june 2019
- "...a sunday morning keynote" - !!con, may 2019
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"mass incarceration β₯ technology" - womens prison association ep
meeting, march 2019
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"introducing jennchat" - processing community day nyc open mic,
february 2019
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"what can you make on glitch" - kickstarter creative, january 2019
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"what's the harm in 'hello world'" - nysais neit, november 2018
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"technology wasn't born bad, we just wrote it that way, pt 2" -
women techmaker's summit, october 2018
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"putting your best 'hello world' forward" - apistrat, september
2018
- "opening keynote" - xoxo art + code night, september 2018
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"literally everything is pixel art" - jsconf us, august 2018
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"art and technology, great but also bad, pt 2" - write/speak/code
nyc, august 2018
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"technology wasn't born bad, we just wrote it that way" - ccfest
nyc, may 2018
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"art and technology, great but also bad" - generate nyc, april
2018
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"a topic of utmost hexcellence" - brooklyn js, december 2017
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"building a better web with glitch" - devfest nyc, december 2017
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"abstract art in a time of minification"
- ffconf, november 2017
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"jenn's catskillsconf talk..." - catskillsconf, october 2017
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keynote
- fullstackfest, september 2017
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"building a better web using glitch"
- o'reilly fluent, june 2017
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"what if twilio could..." - twilio signal, may 2017
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"we don't learn alone"
- devxcon, may 2017
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"listen and/or watch as i deconstruct the real web developer" -
deconstructconf, april 2017
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"something about art + code" - codenewbie nyc, september 2016
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"no one expects the lady code troll" - xoxo, september 2016
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"does jenn schiffer think code and art go together? duh of
course she does. and here is some proof." - microsoft open js
day, december 2015
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"deconstructing the pixel (for artists)" - software for artists
day, december 2015
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"deconstructing the pixel (using javascript) (and other
things)" - jsconf colombia, october 2015
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"an intro to pxon, or 'what i did during summer vacation'" -
brooklyn js, september 2015
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"jenn schiffer's serious talk about arrays, or 'arrays the
roof;'" - txjs, july 2015
- "how to be a real web developer" - irl club, june 2015
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"who visualized the bomp" - web rebels, may 2015
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"drawing lines with bresenham's line algorithm" - code genius,
march 2015
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"anything you can paint, i can program better" - jquery uk,
march 2015
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"state of the malware" - dhtmlconf oakland, december 2014
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"learning to love selfies with pixel art" - brooklyn js, november
2014
- "javascripting matisse" - manhattan js, november 2014
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"growing up wordpress" - wordcamp sf, october 2014
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"your grandparents probably didn't have node" - thunderplains
js, october 2014
- "hypertext markup art" - asbury agile, october 2014
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"there are hot local jquery tables in your area" - jquery
chicago, september 2014
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"a career of being lazy using wordpress" - wordcamp nyc, august
2014
- "color pickle" - boston js, june 2014
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"what's the harm in sorting" - jsconf, may 2014
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"jenn's good ideas for monetizing c.s.s.β’" - cssconf, may
2014
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"sorting out sorting" - empire js, april 2014
- "malware" - dhtmlconf, march 2014
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"how to avoid work and bring your coworkers together using
javascript" - brooklyn js, january 2014
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"art-up with markup" - nyc html5 meetup, january 2014
- "kiss my canvas" - jquery austin, september 2013
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"learn code, make art" - jquery portland, june 2013
conferences i've emcee'd
- xoxo, 2024
- xoxo art + code night, september 2018
- dinosaur js, june 2018
- dinosaur js, june 2017
- dinosaur js, june 2016
- cssconf nordic, may 2016
- dhtmlconf oakland, december 2014
- cssconf us, may 2014