Summary
Jennifer Kron is a product-minded Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience delivering scalable backend and full-stack solutions. She is based in Chicago and currently builds robust systems at Vivid Seats, following impactful work at Classkick on a real-time learning platform. Her career spans founding backend work at Kaizen, backend payments and microservices at Pillar Technology, and mobile initiatives at Expedia, reflecting a versatile toolkit that includes Kotlin, Java, Scala, Python, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, MySQL, AWS, and JavaScript. With a background in education and ESL from the University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan University, she brings strong communication skills and a user-focused mindset to cross-functional teams. Jennifer combines technical depth with product sense to ship reliable, cloud-native software across diverse domains.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Spanish, Economics, Education, B.A., Spanish, Economics, Education at University of Michigan
Master's Degree, Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor, Master's Degree, Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor at Eastern Michigan University
English, Spanish