I'm an urban designer turned open web developer—which isn't as odd as it sounds.
I am the Director of Engineering at Glitch. Before that I worked on the API at Splice and before that a bunch of things at GitHub, last was starting the Electron team. The year that changed everything was being a Code for America fellow in 2012.
I did the fellowship after working at the City of Boston's Urban Design Technology group and an architecture firm. Before that I was in college, Georgia Tech, graduating with an architecture degree. Before all that I was an awkward teen in Middle Georgia and a baby!
I champion open knowledge, documentation, and kindness. Also: open source is a privilege. Selected side projects are on my work page.
Also, also! I saw all the paintings by Vermeer!
Get in touch
jess.lord@gmail.com | twitter/jllord | github/jlord | IRC: freenode, jlord
Talks/Workshops/Panels
- JSConf Colombia — Medellín, Colombia, October 2019
- CSSConf EU — (Emcee) Berlin, Germany, May 2019
- JSConf Hawaii — Honolulu, February 2019
- JAMstack_conf — SF, October 2018
- Write Speak Code — (Workshop mentor) New York City, August 2018
- WebRebels — (Emcee) Oslo, June 2018
- EmpireConf — (Emcee) New York, October 2017
- ColdFront Conf — Copenhagen, September 2017
- Greater Than Code — Podcast, July 2017
- CSSConf EU — (Emcee) Berlin, Germany, May 2017
- Render Conf — Oxford, England, March, 2017
- JSConf Australia — Melbourne, Australia, December, 2016
- CSSConf, Boston, September 2016
- JavaScript Air, Podcast, July, 2016
- Hanselminutes, Podcast, June, 2106
- GitHub Satellite, Amsterdam, May, 2016
- Node Interactive, Portland, 2015
- Mozilla Festival, London, 2015
- GitHub Universe, San Francisco, 2015
- Open Source Open Society, New Zealand, 2015
- NICAR workshop, Atlanta, 2015
- Mozilla Festival, London, 2014
- JSDC, Taipei, 2014
- Web Rebels, Oslo, 2014
- JSFest, San Francisco, 2014
- She++ TechStories, 2014
- Mozilla Festival, London, 2013
- Aspen Institute, FOCAS, Aspen, 2013
- State of the Map, Portland, 2012
- Code for America Summit, San Francisco, 2012
- Farmhouse Conf, Los Angeles, 2012
Extracurricular
- Gehl Institute, Data Fellow for Public Life Data Protocol
- StreetSmart, transportation data nonprofit; Board of Directors
- Patchwork, Git and GitHub for beginners; organizer, curiculum and mentor
- NodeSchool, Node.js fundamentals; mentor
Work
- Glitch, 2019-Present, Product Engineering Lead
- Splice, 2018-2019, Backend Engineer
- MongoDB, 2017-2018, Engineer
- GitHub, Inc, 2013-2016, Engineer
- Mozilla-Knight Open News Code Sprint, 2013, 2-month grant, Sheetsee.js
- DIY.org, 2013, Maker-in-Residence, Skills curriculum, 3 months, San Francisco
- Code for America, 2012, Fellow, San Francisco
- Boston Planning & Development, 2008-2011, Jr. Urban Designer, City of Boston
- Rutledge-Alcock Architects, 2007-2008, Intern Architect, Atlanta
Education
- Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007, Bachelor of Science, Architecture
- Ecole d'Architecture de Paris LaVillette, 2006
About the Site
I built a static site generator and built this site. It took forever. Typefaces are Lora, Source Sans Pro and Source Code Pro from Google Web Fonts.