Melissa Jennings

Overview

I work on platform engineering at Lakemont Group in New York. Built the experimentation framework 29 product teams use to ship changes safely. Before that: Accenture and JPMorgan Chase. Most at home with Bazel and Backstage. I host a monthly meetup on platform engineering.

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Experience

1. Staff Platform Engineer

   Apr 2026 - Present
   Lakemont Group · 6 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Built the experimentation framework 18 product teams use to ship changes safely.
   • Moved 64% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 12 a week to 1.
2. Senior Platform Engineer

   May 2024 - Apr 2026
   Accenture · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Wrote the Backstage service that now handles 62 million requests a day.
3. Platform Engineer

   Jan 2021 - May 2024
   JPMorgan Chase · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 19 a week to 2.
   • Moved 83% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
4. Platform Engineer

   Oct 2019 - Jan 2021
   Shopify · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 39% in two quarters.
   • Wrote the Kubernetes service that now handles 82 million requests a day.

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Education

1. UT Austin

   BS, Mathematics
   2014 - 2018