Jessica McKellar

I am a software engineer living in Cambridge, MA.

I enjoy the Internet, networking, low-level systems engineering, relational databases, tinkering on electronics projects, and contributing to and helping other people contribute to open source software.

I am an organizer for the Boston Python Meetup, a 2**10+ member Python user group. We hold several events each month geared towards Python programmers of all experience levels. Our recurring Boston Python Workshop, run jointly with the OpenHatch project, has been hugely successful at bringing new and diverse people into the local Python community and inspiring other outreach events across the country.

Cambridge has fantastic opportunities for local Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) outreach, and I've had the pleasure of putting my science and engineering background to use volunteering with a number of local schools and organizations.

I wrote on a variety of topics related to Linux system administration and security with other Ksplice engineers at the Ksplice blog.

Contact

jesstess@mit.edu
jesstess on Freenode
@jessicamckellar on Twitter

Open source

Maintainer for Twisted, an asynchronous networking platform written in Python
Maintainer for OpenHatch, an open source involvement engine
Member of the Python Software Foundation
- Member of the PSF Outreach and Education Committee
Organizer for the Boston Python Meetup
Updated the complete Linux Device Drivers 3 example library from the 2.6.10 Linux kernel APIs to those of newer kernels (original library, updated library repository on Github)

Github
Ohloh
OpenHatch

STEM volunteering

Organizer, curriculum developer, and lecturer for the Boston Python Workshop, a series of project-driven outreach workshops and follow-up events aimed at beginning Python programmers
Mentor with the Science Club for Girls
Mentor with the Time to Invent Club, an after-school program sponsored by WGBH that exposes disadvantaged youth to invention and engineering through fun, hands-on activities

Education

MIT Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2010)
MIT Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (2009)
MIT Bachelor of Science in Chemistry (2009)
Member of the MIT Student Information Processing Board