Jenna Robertson

Senior Backend Engineer at Kaiser Permanente · API platforms · rate limiting, OpenAPI

Kaiser Permanente

New York, NY · ET (UTC-5)

7+ years experience

NYU

English

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Currently at Kaiser Permanente, where I work on API platforms. Brought on-call pages for public API down from 23 a week to 4. Previously at Adobe. Most at home with REST and OpenAPI. Jazz piano, badly.

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PostgreSQLRESTKotlinPythonrate limitingRedisOpenAPI

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Open to advising seed teams on REST

Topics: API platforms, Python, rate limiting
Format: Async reviews
Terms: Paid
Capacity: Two calls a month
Best for: Teams scaling past 50 people

7 years of API platforms. Can review plans, decks and hiring loops.

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Experience

Senior Backend Engineer
Nov 2022 - Present
Kaiser Permanente · 3 yr 11 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
- Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 733ms to 140ms.
- Brought on-call pages for public API down from 26 a week to 3.
Backend Engineer
Oct 2019 - Nov 2022
Adobe · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
- Wrote the REST service that now handles 41 million requests a day.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from public API

2024

What went wrong and what worked while scaling API platforms.

Side project: a recipe search engine

2023

Built with rate limiting and Python. 520 people used it last year.

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Education

NYU
BA, Electrical Engineering
2015 - 2019

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