Jennifer Grange
Software Engineering Manager
Welcome!
Current (2019 - now)
I’m an Engineering Manager at Prefect, managing a full-stack team of 7 developers.
I love working with engineers to create a high quality product and to build a happy and high-performing team. I’ve led engineers from across the stack, building out both our orchestration product and our web UI. I have helped hired great colleagues from junior devs to staff engineers.
Before taking on management I was a lead engineer at Prefect focussed mainly on our UI. I still love coding and regularly build Prefect flows in Python and make contributions to our UI using Vue.js and Typescript.
Before I joined Prefect in 2019, I was a software engineering student at the Grace Hopper Program at Fullstack Academy in New York.
I started coding after my husband persuaded me to join him in a Codecademy intensive course to learn Python. Although he didn’t actually have time to finish the course, I loved it and decided I wanted to learn more. After a bit research, I found the Grace Hopper program and got excited about making a full time career of it.
Prior experience
Before I got the coding bug, I spent over ten years as a diplomat for the British government, where I had fun working in Beijing, China; reporting on the DPRK (and trying to help slow down it’s nuclear program); helping the Mexican and Afghan governments build their own robust teams to counter corruption; and learning lots of fun things about detecting deception and negotiation.
Projects
Prefect: The Prefect python and vue.js open source code base.
Prefect-UI-Library: The open source UI library that feeds into our main Prefect product. This is the code that I and my team built over the last few years.
Prefect-Design: The open source Vue.js component library built and maintained by my team.
Python Murder Mystery: The project that started my love of code. Using Python I analyzed hand writing samples to find whose language use most closely matched that of the “murderer”.
Writing
How to Conduct Better Coding Interviews
Co-written with our staff engineer, Chris Guidry, this BuiltIn article gives our solution to hiring engineers in the era of AI.
Tips for success as product and engineering grow
An article published in Dzone about working with a product team while encouraging engineers to have their own product understanding.
Top three challenges facing engineering leaders today
Also published in Dzone, this article focusses on hiring, managing team morale and balancing the demands of the product roadmap with engineer choice.
One of several articles I’ve written for Prefect over the years. This one covers the process of pausing and resuming a flow run.
Creating an App to share our stuff
Nineties Shopper - Now I Want to See Amazon’s Back-end!
Skills
- Leadership
- Collaboration
- Negotiation
- Vue 3
- Typescript
- Javascript
- Mandarin Chinese
Contact
LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-grange-nyc
Email jg@jennifergrange.com