# Jasmine Oliveira

> Jasmine Oliveira is a Boston-based founding engineer at Jellyfish whose career has moved from scientific software and full-stack engineering into engineering leadership, developer experience, and public conversations about the humane use of metrics. A University of Massachusetts Boston computer science graduate and former Harvard-Smithsonian research participant, she joined Jellyfish in 2019 when the company had roughly ten people, later managed engineering teams, spoke at LeadDev West Coast, wrote about work allocation and developer experience, and co-hosted Jellyfish's Off the VPN podcast.

- **Role:** Founding Engineer at Jellyfish
- **Organizations:** Jellyfish, University of Massachusetts Boston, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Hack.Diversity, Strong Women, Strong Girls, LeadDev
- **Education:** Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Boston
- **Known for:** Co-developed SPECdata, an open-source interactive tool designed to accelerate analysis and discovery in broadband rotational spectra., Joined Jellyfish during its early ten-person stage and grew from full-stack generalist engineering into leadership and a founding-engineer role., Led teams that built tools for engineering resource allocation and software capitalization.

## Career timeline

- **2013** — Built and programmed a wireless four-wheeled catapult nicknamed the 'Marshmallow' Robot in C#.
- **2014** — Named to the College of Science and Mathematics Dean's List and volunteered with Strong Women, Strong Girls.
- **2015-2017** — Served as president of the UMass Boston Computer Science Club.
- **2016** — Worked on a WorldWide Telescope Android application project at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and completed the EcoSim environment-simulator game.
- **2017** — Presented SPECdata, open-source interactive software for accelerating broadband spectral analysis, with collaborators at the International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy.
- **2019** — Joined Jellyfish as a full-stack engineer when the startup had roughly ten employees.
- **2021** — Described her work as a generalist engineer and 'Dev Custodian,' combining full-stack development with prioritization, triage, and team care.
- **2023** — Spoke at LeadDev West Coast about using metrics collaboratively to improve conversations with individual contributors.
- **2024** — Published work on engineering allocation and developer experience, appeared as Jellyfish's software engineering manager, and moderated an ELC Boston discussion on engineering management in the age of AI.
- **2024-2025** — Co-hosted Jellyfish's Off the VPN podcast with Allison Regna, discussing workplace and engineering dilemmas.
- **Current** — Works as a founding engineer at Jellyfish in Boston.

## Achievements

- Co-developed SPECdata, an open-source interactive tool designed to accelerate analysis and discovery in broadband rotational spectra.
- Joined Jellyfish during its early ten-person stage and grew from full-stack generalist engineering into leadership and a founding-engineer role.
- Led teams that built tools for engineering resource allocation and software capitalization.
- Presented a LeadDev West Coast talk on making engineering metrics useful for growth, self-advocacy, and healthier team dynamics.
- Authored public work on Jellyfish's Work Allocations model and a developer-experience initiative associated with a twofold improvement in satisfaction with test automation.
- Mentored with Strong Women, Strong Girls and Hack.Diversity.
- Served as president of the UMass Boston Computer Science Club from 2015 to 2017.

## Latest updates

- **2025-04** — Promoted Jellyfish's GLOWLive program on measuring the impact of AI coding tools, noting her direct work on the company's AI-impact initiatives.
- **2025-03** — Continued co-hosting Off the VPN, discussing workplace dilemmas including collaboration, automation, and senior-engineer behavior.
- **2024-10** — Moderated ELC Boston's 'Engineering Management in the Age of AI' fireside chat with QuotientAI co-founder Julia Neagu.
- **2024-08** — Published a Jellyfish case study on a developer-experience program tied to doubled satisfaction with test automation and a 15% rise in overall satisfaction and well-being.
- **2024-06** — Published an article explaining Jellyfish's Work Allocations model and the limits of issue, pull-request, and story-point counts.

## Links

- Website: https://jellyfish.co
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasmineoliveira

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Last updated: 2026-09-27