Jessica Mauerhan is a Staff Software Engineer based in Raleigh, NC with a decade of experience delivering scalable web applications. She pairs deep PHP/MySQL expertise with hands-on work in JavaScript, GraphQL, and serverless, consistently prioritizing automated testing and maintainable code. In her current role at GameChanger, she leads technical direction, mentors engineers, and helps drive backbone systems and quality practices. Previously at Skillshare and Tango, she spearheaded a transition from a monolithic PHP stack to event-driven microservices, improved CI/CD, and slashed onboarding time for new engineers. Her testing contributions to the Ramsey/uuid PHP library highlight a strong focus on reliability and edge-case coverage. She studied Software Engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas and enjoys teaching and mentoring others.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas
:snowflake: A PHP library for generating universally unique identifiers (UUIDs).
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:35 commits, 9 PRs, 24 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Jessica primarily contributed to testing efforts within the project. Their commits include adding and modifying test cases, specifically related to PECL UUID extensions and other generator components. The changes involve writing tests for random and time-based UUID generation, demonstrating a focus on ensuring the library's functionality and correctness. They also updated tests to use mocks and clean up test files.
A tool that parses your Behat .feature files and turns them alchemy-like into an interactive user manual
Contributions:24 commits, 8 PRs, 70 pushes in 11 months
behatuser-manualmanualalchemyturns
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