Jennifer Hanson

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CTO at Nectar Works · PostgreSQL, OpenAPI

Nectar Works
Portland, OR · PT (UTC-8)
12+ years experience
USC
English
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Overview

15 years in software engineering, the last 2 at Nectar Works, where I lead the public API team. Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 337ms to 95ms. Before that: Uber and HubSpot. Most at home with Elasticsearch and rate limiting. Home cook with strong opinions about biryani.

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Skills
ElasticsearchPostgreSQLOpenAPIrate limiting

Experience

  1. CTO
    Apr 2025 - Present
    Nectar Works · 1 yr 6 mo · Contract · Portland, OR
    • Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 331ms to 116ms.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 44 minutes to under 3.
  2. Engineering Manager
    Mar 2022 - Apr 2025
    Uber · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Portland, OR
    • Mentored 15 engineers through their first promotion.
  3. Backend Engineer
    Jul 2020 - Mar 2022
    HubSpot · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Portland, OR
    • Brought on-call pages for public API down from 32 a week to 2.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Jul 2016 - Apr 2020
    eBay · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Portland, OR
    • Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 411ms to 91ms.
  5. Backend Engineer
    Sep 2014 - Jul 2016
    Workday · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Portland, OR
    • Wrote the PostgreSQL service that now handles 35 million requests a day.

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2022

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Education

  1. USC
    BS, Mathematics
    2007 - 2011

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