About me

• Software Engineer at Microsoft
• Musician and composer with music available on most streaming services
• President/COO and founder of Digital Defiance, a non-profit Open Source Engineering Guild
• Open Source advocate and contributor
• Women's, minority, and disabled rights advocate
• Disabled due to aggressive/advanced metastatic thyroid cancer, COPD, long COVID

🔭 I started an Open Source/FOSS Guild called "Digital Defiance" (GitHub) which is a non profit incorporated in WA state and is officially 501c3. It has absorbed most of my projects. Right now we're actively working on a number of projects.

• Come find us!
  • Keybase: https://keybase.io/team/digitaldefiance
  • Discord: https://discord.gg/8ASAAxzyyM

I work on a lot of side projects, always starting new things. I usually circle back to projects eventually.

I am currently un-mothballing some of the projects I set aside when I was sicker.

• Most of what I am currently working on is in TypeScript and in NX based monorepos, MERN stacks.
• BrightChain
• Dominion Assistant
• OpenBook
• Chili and Cilantro
• GridIron

My old projects aren't totally abandoned- though some are kind of ideas I've thought about and may interest you, so I've left whatever work (if any) I've done. 🤷‍♀️ I may swing back yet... Occasionally I'll pick one of them back up out of the blue and update it. Most of it is ideas in search of an audience.

🌱 I’m always learning. I'm rebuilding my life as a software engineer and musician after losing many years and a lot of ability to cancer, autoimmune diseases, and then COVID/Long COVID which further provoked the autoimmune issues. I always am trying to stay current in a lot of different areas. Pushing my knowledge on C#/Blazor, JavaScript, TypeScript and more.

💬 Ask me about Software Engineering, Music, Writing. Programmer since ~1987, professional since 1994. Embedded systems, DSP, Web/Full Stack. C/C++, Python, PHP, C#, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript/ECMAScript, ActionScript/Flex, Perl, Go, Pascal, and more.

📫 How to reach me: jessica [at] mulein [dot] com

• https://jessicamulein.com (GitHub pages hosted)
• https://linktr.ee/jmulein
• Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@jmulein
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicamulein/

😄 Pronouns: Mercurial/Highness/Majesty (she/her if you really want to know)

⚡ Fun fact: I was once a licensed coal miner and have coded in the deepest darkest places on earth. I have lived rather diverse and separate lives under several names. One of my names is on millions of bookshelves.