jenn schiffer

The short version

Jenn Schiffer is a Director of Community working on Fastly's developer community and managing Glitch where she's responsible for supporting, growing and advocating for the friendliest community of coders.

The long version

Jenn Schiffer is a Director of Community working on Fastly's developer community and managing Glitch, where she's responsible for supporting, growing and advocating for the friendliest community of coders. She hasn't won any awards (not mad).

Jenn earned both a Bachelors and Masters in Computer Science from Montclair State University, then joining the department to work on undergraduate and graduate level curriculum, accreditation, and advising of hundreds of students. She's taught tech literacy to non-technical majors, web development fundamentals to graduate Computer Science students, and haters how to love.

A proponent of open and ethical web technology, she left academia to work in the web development industry, first as senior engineer at the National Basketball Association, open web engineer at Bocoup, and then as Glitch's first Community Engineer. She's built software that runs the gamut from sports stats delivery and healthcare price crowdsourcing, to pixel art creation tools and databases helping doctors find the best cancer treatment for their patients.

She has spoken all over the world at nearly 100 events about JavaScript, ethics, and art. Jenn is based in Jersey City, where she has organized the developer meetup JerseyScript, was a founding core team member of the 2nd iteration of Code For Jersey City, an Honorary Emerging Philanthropist at the Women's Prison Association and co-organizer/emcee of Brooklyn JS.

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Podcasts I've been a guest on

  1. the dev stream, january 2022
  2. sustain oss, november 2020
  3. stack overflow podcast, may 2020
  4. shift shift forward, april 2020
  5. policy viz, january 2018
  6. mozilla's irl podcast, january 2018
  7. indiedotes, august 2017
  8. greater than code, july 2017
  9. stack overflow podcast (guest host)
  10. js party, march 2017
  11. stack overflow podcast, march 2017
  12. greater than code, february 2017
  13. studio360, march 2015
  14. javascript jabber, december 2014
  15. codenewbie, december 2014
  16. strange beings, august 2014
  17. ladies in tech, may 2014
  18. frip frap, february 2014
  19. shop talk show, october 2013

Workshops I've given

  1. "welcome to my guestbook - going from static to full-stack on glitch" - dinosaur js, june 2018
  2. "decoded: intro to javascript" - the wing, december 2017
  3. "building a better web with glitch" - devfest nyc, december 2017
  4. "decoded: intro to css and a11y" - the wing, november 2017
  5. "decoded: intro to the web and html" - the wing, november 2017
  6. "intro to js and twitter bots" - Tufts WIT, october 2017
  7. "going front-end to full-stack with glitch" - empireconf, october 2017

Conference & meetup talks

  1. every community is a winding road - community-led summit, april 2024
  2. "condemned to compute" - causal islands, april 2023
  3. "javascript after dark" - jsconf eu, june 2019
  4. "...a sunday morning keynote" - !!con, may 2019
  5. "mass incarceration ♥ technology" - womens prison association ep meeting, march 2019
  6. "introducing jennchat" - processing community day nyc open mic, february 2019
  7. "what can you make on glitch" - kickstarter creative, january 2019
  8. "what's the harm in 'hello world'" - nysais neit, november 2018
  9. "technology wasn't born bad, we just wrote it that way, pt 2" - women techmaker's summit, october 2018
  10. "putting your best 'hello world' forward" - apistrat, september 2018
  11. "opening keynote" - xoxo art + code night, september 2018
  12. "literally everything is pixel art" - jsconf us, august 2018
  13. "art and technology, great but also bad, pt 2" - write/speak/code nyc, august 2018
  14. "technology wasn't born bad, we just wrote it that way" - ccfest nyc, may 2018
  15. "art and technology, great but also bad" - generate nyc, april 2018
  16. "a topic of utmost hexcellence" - brooklyn js, december 2017
  17. "building a better web with glitch" - devfest nyc, december 2017
  18. "abstract art in a time of minification" - ffconf, november 2017
  19. "jenn's catskillsconf talk..." - catskillsconf, october 2017
  20. keynote - fullstackfest, september 2017
  21. "building a better web using glitch" - o'reilly fluent, june 2017
  22. "what if twilio could..." - twilio signal, may 2017
  23. "we don't learn alone" - devxcon, may 2017
  24. "listen and/or watch as i deconstruct the real web developer" - deconstructconf, april 2017
  25. "something about art + code" - codenewbie nyc, september 2016
  26. "no one expects the lady code troll" - xoxo, september 2016
  27. "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
  28. "deconstructing the pixel (for artists)" - software for artists day, december 2015
  29. "deconstructing the pixel (using javascript) (and other things)" - jsconf colombia, october 2015
  30. "an intro to pxon, or 'what i did during summer vacation'" - brooklyn js, september 2015
  31. "jenn schiffer's serious talk about arrays, or 'arrays the roof;'" - txjs, july 2015
  32. "how to be a real web developer" - irl club, june 2015
  33. "who visualized the bomp" - web rebels, may 2015
  34. "drawing lines with bresenham's line algorithm" - code genius, march 2015
  35. "anything you can paint, i can program better" - jquery uk, march 2015
  36. "state of the malware" - dhtmlconf oakland, december 2014
  37. "learning to love selfies with pixel art" - brooklyn js, november 2014
  38. "javascripting matisse" - manhattan js, november 2014
  39. "growing up wordpress" - wordcamp sf, october 2014
  40. "your grandparents probably didn't have node" - thunderplains js, october 2014
  41. "hypertext markup art" - asbury agile, october 2014
  42. "there are hot local jquery tables in your area" - jquery chicago, september 2014
  43. "a career of being lazy using wordpress" - wordcamp nyc, august 2014
  44. "color pickle" - boston js, june 2014
  45. "what's the harm in sorting" - jsconf, may 2014
  46. "jenn's good ideas for monetizing c.s.s.™" - cssconf, may 2014
  47. "sorting out sorting" - empire js, april 2014
  48. "malware" - dhtmlconf, march 2014
  49. "how to avoid work and bring your coworkers together using javascript" - brooklyn js, january 2014
  50. "art-up with markup" - nyc html5 meetup, january 2014
  51. "kiss my canvas" - jquery austin, september 2013
  52. "learn code, make art" - jquery portland, june 2013

Conferences i've emcee'd:

  1. xoxo art + code night, september 2018
  2. dinosaur js, june 2018
  3. dinosaur js, june 2017
  4. dinosaur js, june 2016
  5. cssconf nordic, may 2016
  6. dhtmlconf oakland, december 2014
  7. cssconf us, may 2014