Jade Vance

About Jade Vance

This is what LinkedIn wrote for me: Experienced Senior Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the photography industry. Skilled in Method Development, Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS), Ruby, C#, and Visual Studio. Strong engineering professional graduated from Ada Developers Academy.

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer Team Lead

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   Feb 2017 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Search Team - Natural Language Tech Lead (August 2022 to Current) • Cultivator of dad jokes and Gif of the Day culture • Leading a team of engineers and data scientists to support multi-lingual natural language search• Projects and initiatives focused on computer vision and query processingSearch Team - VisualGPS Insights Tech Lead (January 2022 to July 2022) • Designed and built technical, scalable solutions to delight customers• Hands-on with the project from initial design to final release• Fun yet focused style of leadershipSearch Team - Reporting Tech Lead (July 2020 to December 2021)• Built a new team focused on data quality for reporting experimental results• Designed and built a data product that could be utilized across the company for model building, future experimentation and data insights• Apache Spark Dance Parties• Quantification and visualization of customer data and interactionsSearch Team (September 2019 to July 2020)• Working with Solr 8.x • A solid working knowledge of Elasticsearch and Kibana • Solving delicious problems like visual authenticity • Mentoring and advocating for Junior Developers• Polyglot: C#, Java and Python, sometimes all three in the same day• Still performing a lot of the same Services duties but specifically focused on Search now. eCommerce Enterprise Services Team (February 2017 - August 2019)• Working in C# framework flavors of.NET and.Net Core • Creation and enhancement of REST API endpoints for Services, specifically eCommerce• Care and maintenance of SOAP Services• Got a nice shout out from leadership with PCI compliance project• AWS migration with Terraform infrastructure • Test Driven Development• Pair Programming• Main driver of team building shenanigans

Education

• Ada Developers Academy

  Adult and Continuing Education and Teaching

  2016 — 2017

• University of Central Florida

  Associate’s Degree, Biology, General

  2001 — 2003

• Arizona State University

  Bachelor’s Degree, Biology/Biological Sciences, General

  2003 — 2005

Skills

• Javascript
• Ruby on Rails
• Html5
• Wet Chemistry
• Visual Studio
• Community Building
• Laboratory Automation
• Method Development
• Serology
• Masshunter
• Quality Control
• Git
• Lcms
• Urinalysis
• C#
• Snacks
• Inventory Control
• Github
• Gcms
• Hugs
• Ruby
• Chemstation
• Method Validation
• Laboratory Equipment
• Manual Testing
• Supply Chain Management
• Css