Experience
Dimagi, Inc. Cambridge, MA
- Senior Director of Product Engineering
- 2022 to present
- Oversees technical strategy and execution for US Health division, leading development, product, support, application engineering, and engineering management teams.
- Responsible for overall prioritization and resourcing decisions, from multi-year technical vision to quarterly roadmaps to sprint by sprint resource allocations.
- Writes product design documents and technical specifications for key features. Directly implements and reviews critical features when needed.
- Directly coordinates the team’s high priority efforts when required around escalated technical issues and incident response.
- Liaises with service implementation team, balancing business requirements and timelines with platform stability and technical sustainability.
- Senior Engineer II
- 2014 to 2022
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Individual technical contributions
- Second-most prolific contributor to commcare-hq, one of GitHub's 100 most valuable open source projects*
- Contributor to multiple technology stacks: Django, Java server, Android, and Node
- Led JavaScript modernization initiative in 10-year-old, 100K-line codebase
- Lead engineer in US Health, Mission, and Software as a Service divisions at various times
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Conference papers and presentations
- Schweers, J. & Deflaux, G. "Design Sprints: Inspiring big changes in digital solutions." Presentation at 10th ICT4D Conference, Lusaka, Zambia, 2018.
- Schweers, J., Khalid, M., Underwood, H., Bishnoi, S., & Chhugani, M. "mLabour: Design and Evaluation of a Mobile Partograph and Labour Ward Management Application." Paper presented at Humanitarian Technology 2016: Science, Systems, and Global Impact, Boston, MA.
athenahealth Watertown, MA
- Senior Software Engineer
- 2010 to 2014
- Acted as tech lead for two cross-functional teams and managed three developers
- Worked on redesign and re-implementation of core clinical experience
- Developed workflows to facilitate physician productivity and support client compliance with federal Meaningful Use standards
Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA
- Software Developer
- 2009 to 2010 (part-time)
- Developed features for StepGreen.org, a website that encourages sustainable living
eBay, Inc. San Jose, CA
- Senior Software Engineer
- 2006 to 2009
- Developed and maintained components of eBay's core ad optimization platform, which manages $250 million annually in marketing spend
- Architected system to move long-running processes offline, drastically reducing load times and browser crashes
- Twice recognized as a top performer within 200-person department
Education
Master of Arts, Applied Sociology
- University of Massachusetts
- Boston, MA
- 2021 to, optimistically, 2026
- Schweers, Jennifer. (2023). "The Next Step: Current Sexual Lifestyles and Future Intentions." Socius, 9. https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231231188335
Continuing Education
- Harvard Extension School, graduate coursework in psychology, spring & summer 2021
- eCornell, Certificte in Plant-Based Nutrition, spring 2019
Master of Human-Computer Interaction
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Pittsburgh, PA
- 2009 to 2010
- GPA 3.97
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Worcester, MA
- 2002 to 2006
- GPA 3.99
- Minors in philosophy and computer engineering