jenn schiffer

cv

• bugs rock - founder (february 2025 - present)
• fastly (acquired glitch) — director of community (may 2022 - september 2024)
• glitch — director of community (august 2018 - may 2022)
• fog creek — community engineer, glitch 🎏 (february 2017 - august 2018)
• bocoup — open web engineer (april 2014 - february 2017)
• nba 🏀 — senior front-end developer (july 2013 - april 2014)
• montclair state university – department administrator (july 2011 - may 2013)
• baristanet – web developer (april 2008 - april 2014)
• montclair state university – graduate assistant and adjunct (september 2007 - 2011)

education

• montclair state university — master of computer science
• montclair state university — bachelor of computer science

organizations

• women’s prison association — honorary emerging philanthropist
• jerseyscript meetup — founder, organizer
• brooklynjs meetup - emcee, co-organizer

speaking experience

highlights:

• co-host - xoxo, august 2024
• "condemned to compute" - causal islands, april 2023
• "no one expects the lady code troll" - xoxo, september 2016
• "what's the harm in sorting" - jsconf, may 2014
• "sorting out sorting" - empire js, april 2014

podcasts i've been a guest on

1. boba talk (codedex), march 2025
2. the dev stream, january 2022
3. sustain oss, november 2020
4. stack overflow podcast, may 2020
5. shift shift forward, april 2020
6. policy viz, january 2018
7. mozilla's irl podcast, january 2018
8. indiedotes, august 2017
9. greater than code, july 2017
10. stack overflow podcast (guest host)
11. js party, march 2017
12. stack overflow podcast, march 2017
13. greater than code, february 2017
14. studio360, march 2015
15. javascript jabber, december 2014
16. codenewbie, december 2014
17. strange beings, august 2014
18. ladies in tech, may 2014
19. frip frap, february 2014
20. shop talk show, october 2013

workshops i've given

1. "welcome to my guestbook - going from static to full-stack on glitch" - dinosaur js, june 2018
2. "decoded: intro to javascript" - the wing, december 2017
3. "building a better web with glitch" - devfest nyc, december 2017
4. "decoded: intro to css and a11y" - the wing, november 2017
5. "decoded: intro to the web and html" - the wing, november 2017
6. "intro to js and twitter bots" - Tufts WIT, october 2017
7. "going front-end to full-stack with glitch" - empireconf, october 2017

conference & meetup talks

1. "computational techniques for making karaoke harder" with jamie brew - chinatown js, august 2025
2. "hard wax, soft skills" - brooklyn web workers, august 2025
3. a history of boro.js - chinatown.js, november 2024
4. every community is a winding road - community-led summit, april 2024
5. "condemned to compute" - causal islands, april 2023
6. "javascript after dark" - jsconf eu, june 2019
7. "...a sunday morning keynote" - !!con, may 2019
8. "mass incarceration ♥ technology" - womens prison association ep meeting, march 2019
9. "introducing jennchat" - processing community day nyc open mic, february 2019
10. "what can you make on glitch" - kickstarter creative, january 2019
11. "what's the harm in 'hello world'" - nysais neit, november 2018
12. "technology wasn't born bad, we just wrote it that way, pt 2" - women techmaker's summit, october 2018
13. "putting your best 'hello world' forward" - apistrat, september 2018
14. "opening keynote" - xoxo art + code night, september 2018
15. "literally everything is pixel art" - jsconf us, august 2018
16. "art and technology, great but also bad, pt 2" - write/speak/code nyc, august 2018
17. "technology wasn't born bad, we just wrote it that way" - ccfest nyc, may 2018
18. "art and technology, great but also bad" - generate nyc, april 2018
19. "a topic of utmost hexcellence" - brooklyn js, december 2017
20. "building a better web with glitch" - devfest nyc, december 2017
21. "abstract art in a time of minification" - ffconf, november 2017
22. "jenn's catskillsconf talk..." - catskillsconf, october 2017
23. keynote - fullstackfest, september 2017
24. "building a better web using glitch" - o'reilly fluent, june 2017
25. "what if twilio could..." - twilio signal, may 2017
26. "we don't learn alone" - devxcon, may 2017
27. "listen and/or watch as i deconstruct the real web developer" - deconstructconf, april 2017
28. "something about art + code" - codenewbie nyc, september 2016
29. "no one expects the lady code troll" - xoxo, september 2016
30. "does jenn schiffer think code and art go together? duh of course she does. and here is some proof." - microsoft open js day, december 2015
31. "deconstructing the pixel (for artists)" - software for artists day, december 2015
32. "deconstructing the pixel (using javascript) (and other things)" - jsconf colombia, october 2015
33. "an intro to pxon, or 'what i did during summer vacation'" - brooklyn js, september 2015
34. "jenn schiffer's serious talk about arrays, or 'arrays the roof;'" - txjs, july 2015
35. "how to be a real web developer" - irl club, june 2015
36. "who visualized the bomp" - web rebels, may 2015
37. "drawing lines with bresenham's line algorithm" - code genius, march 2015
38. "anything you can paint, i can program better" - jquery uk, march 2015
39. "state of the malware" - dhtmlconf oakland, december 2014
40. "learning to love selfies with pixel art" - brooklyn js, november 2014
41. "javascripting matisse" - manhattan js, november 2014
42. "growing up wordpress" - wordcamp sf, october 2014
43. "your grandparents probably didn't have node" - thunderplains js, october 2014
44. "hypertext markup art" - asbury agile, october 2014
45. "there are hot local jquery tables in your area" - jquery chicago, september 2014
46. "a career of being lazy using wordpress" - wordcamp nyc, august 2014
47. "color pickle" - boston js, june 2014
48. "what's the harm in sorting" - jsconf, may 2014
49. "jenn's good ideas for monetizing c.s.s.™" - cssconf, may 2014
50. "sorting out sorting" - empire js, april 2014
51. "malware" - dhtmlconf, march 2014
52. "how to avoid work and bring your coworkers together using javascript" - brooklyn js, january 2014
53. "art-up with markup" - nyc html5 meetup, january 2014
54. "kiss my canvas" - jquery austin, september 2013
55. "learn code, make art" - jquery portland, june 2013

conferences i've emcee'd

1. xoxo, 2024
2. xoxo art + code night, september 2018
3. dinosaur js, june 2018
4. dinosaur js, june 2017
5. dinosaur js, june 2016
6. cssconf nordic, may 2016
7. dhtmlconf oakland, december 2014
8. cssconf us, may 2014