Jessica DeStefano

Teaching Assistant, Computer Science Department

University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)•  August 2018 - Present

• Assisted CS faculty with an undergraduate class of 200 students centered on learning C++ • Aided in the weekly administration of lab sessions • Held weekly office hours to ensure students are understanding lecture material

Software Engineer Intern

Imanage•  June 2019 - November 2019

• Worked on a team of four interns to split a monolith into two microservices to increase horizontal scalability – deployed services into production • Implemented a linter on a new service to allow for code style checks • Modified existing APIs to model the MVC paradigm • Followed agile methodology by completed sprints and attending daily scrums and bi-weekly sprint demos • Developed using Java, Python and Docker