Jessica McKellar
{{short description|American software developer, engineering manager, and author}}
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| occupation = Founder and CTO of Pilot.com, Inc., author
| alma_mater = Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Jessica Tess McKellar is an American software developer, engineering manager, and author.
Education
McKellar attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology{{cite news|last1=Root|first1=Lynn|title=When open source invests in diversity, everyone wins|url=http://opensource.com/life/13/10/interview-jessica-mckellar|publisher=opensource.com|date=October 15, 2013}} and studied computer science{{cite thesis|last1=McKellar|first1=Jessica|title=Monitoring the health of an open source project : a case study|date=June 2010|publisher=M.I.T. Master of Engineering thesis|hdl=1721.1/61174|type=Thesis}} and chemistry.{{cite journal|last1=Piro|first1=Nicholas|last2=Figueroa|first2=Joshua|last3=McKellar|first3=Jessica|last4=Cummins|first4=Christopher|title=Triple-Bond Reactivity of Diphosphorus Molecules|journal=Science|date=1 September 2006|volume=313|issue=5791|pages=1276–1279|doi=10.1126/science.1129630|url=https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.1129630|pmid=16946068|bibcode=2006Sci...313.1276P|s2cid=27740669}}
Work
McKellar was an early employee and engineering manager at Ksplice, which was acquired by Oracle in 2011. In 2012, she co-founded Zulip, a chat software company.{{cite web|title=This Is What Impactful Engineering Leadership Looks Like|url=http://firstround.com/review/this-is-what-impactful-engineering-leadership-looks-like/|website=First Round Review|publisher=First Round Capital|accessdate=March 19, 2015|ref=firstround}} In 2014, the company was acquired by Dropbox.{{cite news|last1=Perez|first1=Sarah|title=Dropbox Acquires Zulip, A Stealthy Workplace Chat Solution Still In Private Beta|url=https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/17/dropbox-acquires-zulip-a-stealthy-workplace-chat-solution-still-in-private-beta/|publisher=TechCrunch|date=March 17, 2014}} She has spoken at several conferences about outreach efforts to increase the diversity of open-source communities.{{cite web|last1=Daley|first1=Noelle|title=Q&A with Upcoming FutureTalk Speaker Jessica McKellar|url=http://blog.newrelic.com/2014/08/11/futuretalk-jessica-mckellar-qa/|date=August 11, 2014|access-date=March 19, 2015|archive-date=April 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402105852/http://blog.newrelic.com/2014/08/11/futuretalk-jessica-mckellar-qa/|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|last1=Daley|first1=Noelle|title=Python, The Next Generation: A FutureTalk with Jessica McKellar [Video]|url=http://blog.newrelic.com/2014/08/28/python-next-generation-futuretalk-jessica-mckellar-video/|date=August 28, 2014|access-date=March 19, 2015|archive-date=April 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402092219/http://blog.newrelic.com/2014/08/28/python-next-generation-futuretalk-jessica-mckellar-video/|url-status=dead}}
From 2012 to 2014, she was a director of the Python Software Foundation.{{cite web|title=History of PSF Officers & Directors|url=https://www.python.org/psf/records/board/history/#jessica-mckellar|accessdate=March 19, 2015}} In 2013, McKellar won the O'Reilly Open Source Award for her contributions to Python.{{cite news|title=O'Reilly Open Source Awards (2013)|url=http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013/public/schedule/detail/29956|date=July 26, 2013|access-date=March 19, 2015|archive-date=June 18, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150618102153/http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013/public/schedule/detail/29956|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|last1=Curtin|first1=Brian|title=Congratulations to Jessica McKellar, O'Reilly Open Source Award Recipient|url=http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2013/08/congratulations-to-jessica-mckellar.html|publisher=Python Software Foundation News|date=August 5, 2013}} In 2016, she won the Women in Open Source Community Award, awarded by Red Hat.{{cite web|title=Women in Open Source Awards|url=https://www.redhat.com/en/about/women-in-open-source#2015finalists|access-date=Feb 3, 2018}} She is a contributor to Twisted, a networking framework for Python.{{cite book|last1=McKellar|first1=Jessica|last2=Fettig|first2=Abe|title=Twisted Network Programming Essentials|publisher=O'Reilly Media|edition=2nd|url=http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025016.do}} From 2014 to 2017, she was a Director of Engineering and the chief of staff to the VP of Engineering at Dropbox.{{cite web|title=Jessica McKellar|url=http://www.techiesproject.com/jessica-mckellar/|website=Techies Project|accessdate=7 April 2016}}
McKellar was a senior technical advisor for 16 episodes of the HBO show Silicon Valley.{{cite web|title=Jessica McKellar |url=https://m.imdb.com/name/nm9158173/filmotype/miscellaneous|website=IMDb|accessdate=7 April 2016}}
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McKellar is the co-author of the book Twisted Network Programming Essentials, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly Media - 2013).
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Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:American women computer scientists