Jennifer Schweers

Leads by example in code quality, contributing significant portions of production code and refactoring efforts that influence team-wide standards, while guiding architectural direction and long-term maintainability.
Owns the identification, planning, and execution of technical initiatives to improve code quality, developer workflows, and team velocity, aligning engineering efforts with organizational goals.
Mentors developers and other technical team members and enforces best practices to improve system reliability and consistency.

Independently identified, prioritized, and executed refactoring initiatives across multiple codebases, addressing long-standing technical debt and improving code stability, maintainability, and readability.

Oversaw 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.
Wrote product design documents and technical specifications for key features. Directly implemented critical features when needed.
Directly coordinated the team’s high priority efforts when required around escalated technical issues and incident response.
Liaised with service implementaation team, balancing business requirements and timelines with platform stability and technical sustainability.

Individual technical contributions
- The top 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
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.

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

Developed features for StepGreen.org, a website that encourages sustainable living

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

Schweers, Jennifer. 2025. "The successful, the superficial, and the struggling: Patterns of meat reduction in American diets." MA thesis, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Schweers, Jennifer. 2025. "Parenthood's Influence on Political Attitudes Results from Panel Analysis and Matching." Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Eastern Sociological Society, March 8, Boston, MA.
Schweers, Jennifer. 2023. "The Next Step: Current Sexual Lifestyles and Future Intentions." Socius, 9. https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231231188335

Harvard Extension School, graduate coursework in psychology, spring & summer 2021
eCornell, Certificte in Plant-Based Nutrition, spring 2019