Jessica Bainbridge-Smith

Jessica Bainbridge-Smith has 8 years of work experience starting in 2008. In 2008, they worked as a Packaging Engineer at Texas Instruments. In 2010, they were an Engineering Intern at NormaTec. Jessica then worked as a Development Engineer at Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP) in 2011. From 2012 to 2016, they were a Graduate Researcher at UCLA. In 2016, they worked as a Project and Operations Manager at Pencil Point Constructors. From 2019 to 2020, they were a Full Stack Engineer and Back End Engineer for Personal Projects, where they scaled a legacy service to serve 2600 RPS with a 0.8% error rate and replaced a database with Cassandra. Currently, they are a Software Engineer at TrueNorth, where they build fullstack web-based tools for their internal Operations team and external users, and participated in the conversion of their codebase from Redux and REST APIs to Typescript and GraphQL.

Jessica Bainbridge-Smith attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2007 to 2011, earning a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Materials Engineering. Jessica then attended the University of California, Los Angeles from 2012 to 2015, earning a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Jessica also attended Hack Reactor for a Software Engineering Immersive program.