Jennifer Robison is a senior software developer, an advocate for using the right tools for the right reasons. She spent many years as a full stack Web Developer but decided to take a leap into the world of Mobile Development utilizing React Native. Jennifer is passionate about AGILE practices, including Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, and iterative delivery; where we can quickly determine value add and next features. She has a enjoys sharing design and development practices that will increase your code quality as well as your code trust. Jennifer has shared her career journey at the Society of Women Engineers conference and has presented multiple times at the Intel AGILE Conference as well as Intel Software Conference. She has also participated as a mentor and coach at Stanford University’s annual TreeHacks, hack-a-thon, two years and counting and has taught middle school kids basic software development using LOGO.
Join me in this 10-minute talk as I share my experience of navigating the challenges of rewriting an app's codebase in just three weeks using React Native. By some this could be seen as Mission Impossible, but this is a tale of a success; a rescue mission to create a thriving codebase! I'll delve into the steps we took to identify the need to re-write, the obstacles we were facing without, as well as the process we took to feel empowered in our code base.
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