πŸ‘©β€πŸ’» About Me

Jacklyn

πŸ’‘ TL;DR

  • Toronto & Waterloo, Canada
  • Developer Advocate for WooCommerce at Automattic
  • Grad Student at the University of Waterloo

Hey, I'm Jacklyn! πŸ‘‹

Currently, I'm working as a Developer Advocate for WooCommerce at Automattic where I'm improving developer experience for the world's largest eCommerce platform.

Previously, I led Developer Relations at a seed-stage startup called Autocode, supported 50+ student hackathons with Major League Hacking, and launched Hack Quarantine - a 3,500 attendee hackathon. In 2021, I was featured in the MLH Top 50 and was awarded The Diana Award - "the most prestigious accolade a young person aged 9-25 years can receive for their social action or humanitarian work".

I'm based out of Toronto and Waterloo, Ontario, but am originally from the UK. I love to travel, and my favourite way to relax is to nearly miss very tight flight connections.

If you're looking for someone to speak at an event, help mentor new programmers or just want to chat, please feel free to get in touch!

Chat soon!


πŸ’Ό Experience

On a podcast!
Mentoring students
Teaching a workshop
Developer Advocate - Woo

Developer Advocate - Woo

Automattic

October 2023 to Present

  • Launched new developer documentation site for WooCommerce, massively improving developer experience
Developer Relations Lead

Developer Relations Lead

Autocode

September 2021 to September 2023

  • Researched, scripted, and presented instructional videos for Autocode’s YouTube channel, resulting in over 500,000 views, 7,500 subscribers, 97% like-to-dislike ratio, and 17,500 hours of watch time
  • Grew branded Discord server by 350% (9,000 to 32,000 members) while sustaining 20% week one retention rate by building ambassador program (scaling from 8 to 30 people) and running developer-focused events
  • Built sample projects (installed 10,000+ times) to improve platform retention and new ecosystem uptake
  • Wrote 10+ SEO-optimized technical guides targeted at beginner developers to improve platform reach

575,000+ views

on YouTube

400% increase

in Discord server members

10,000+ installs

of sample projects

Hackathon Coach - NA & EU

Hackathon Coach - NA & EU

Major League Hacking

March 2019 to September 2023

  • Mentored students and coached organizers at 50+ hackathons across Europe, North America and online
  • Hosted 60+ technical workshops and livestreams for global audiences of 10 to 350 participants
  • Trained 15+ team members in event management and developer advocacy fundamentals
  • Evangelized technical products such as Azure, Twilio and Auth0 to grow brand awareness among students

50+ hackathons

supported worldwide

15+ team members

trained in devrel

60+ technical workshops

hosted IRL and online

Senior Developer

Senior Developer

Royal Bank of Canada

August 2020 to August 2021

  • Educated 700+ developers in container technologies across RBC, winning internal Silo Buster award
  • Managed, developed, and presented interactive workshops and immersion days to interns and developers
  • Mentored four interns in developing a product integration that won Technical Distinction out of 20 teams
  • Maintained Python tools and scripted resiliency exercises; freeing up 20% of OpenShift cluster capacity

700+ developers

taught about the cloud

4 interns

mentored in software dev

Silo Buster Award

awarded for dev education

Founder & Lead Organizer

Founder & Lead Organizer

Hack Quarantine

March 2020 to May 2020

  • Managed a team of 20 volunteers to organize a 3,500 participant, three-week online hackathon focused on solving issues relating to COVID-19 in just ten days
  • Achieved record breaking metrics, with 251 project submissions, 40,000 unique website visitors and 1.9 million minutes of video content being consumed during the event

1.9 million minutes

of livestreams watched

3,500 participants

joined in ten days

250+ projects

submitted to Devpost

Teaching!
Speaking at TEDx
On stage at uOttaHack
Teaching a workshop

πŸŽ“ Education

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Master of Digital Experience Innovation

Master of Digital Experience Innovation

University of Waterloo

August 2023 to Present β€’ 92% Average / 3.95 GPA

Judge & Workshop Host

Hackville

Participant (In Progress)

UW Uni Teaching Program

Mentor

Hack Western

Participant (In Progress)

UW Leadership Dev. Cert.

Advisor

Eclipse Expos

Speaker

TEDxColumbia Lake Youth

Certificate in Learning Design

Certificate in Learning Design

University of Toronto

February 2022 to May 2023 β€’ 94% Average

Bachelor of Arts, Digital Media (Honours)

Bachelor of Arts, Digital Media (Honours)

University of Leeds

September 2016 to July 2021 β€’ First Class Honours

πŸ† Recipient

The Diana Award

πŸ† MLH Top 50

Major League Hacking

Workshop Lead

Hack the North

Founder

BLAHAJGang

Software Dev Intern

RBC Capital Markets

πŸ† Recipient

LUU Contribution Award

πŸ† Hero of the Moment

I ❀ Student Radio Awards

Head of Tech & Software

Leeds Student Radio

Videographer

Camp Lakota

Undergraduate Exchange

Undergraduate Exchange

Western University

September 2018 to May 2019

πŸ₯‡ First Place

UrbanHacks

πŸ₯ˆ Second Place

uOttaHack

πŸ† 5x Winner

VandyHacks

πŸ† 4x Winner

GrizzHacks

πŸ† Best Use of Stdlib

UofTHacks

πŸ† Best Game

McHacks

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