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Jessica Schumaker

Enthusiast · DISC type i
Staff Engineering Manager, Repository Security at GitHub
📍 Cary, North Carolina, United States

Jessica is a Staff Engineering Manager at GitHub, leading the Repository Security team. Her career spans from quantitative finance technology at Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers to core infrastructure roles at Microsofts Azure DevOps. She holds a Masters degree from North Carolina State University and specializes in scalable code governance and critical system reliability.

While at Merrill Lynch, she successfully led the replacement of a 13-year-old legacy system with a new, consolidated workspace in just eight months.

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Experience
21 Years
Current Role
Staff Engineering Manager, Repository Security
Job Level
Middle
Location
Cary, North Carolina, United States
Personality Overview

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Optimistic
Story Driven
Non-Confrontational

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Priorities

Topics Jessica cares about

Repository Security
Leads the team at GitHub responsible for the platform's Rules engine and repository security, focusing on scalable code governance and enforcing security policies on core workflows.
Critical Infrastructure
Her team owns and operates core systems behind all push and pull operations on GitHub, ensuring reliability and performance for fundamental workflows used by millions of developers.
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Career

Work history

7-2020
Staff Engineering Manager, Repository Security
GitHub
2-2016 - 7-2020
Senior Software Engineer, Azure DevOps
Microsoft
7-2015 - 2-2016
Principal Software Engineer, Actuarial Risk
MetLife
6-2007 - 7-2010
Vice President, Head of Complex FX Options Technology
Merrill Lynch
2006 - 2007
Lead Developer, Fixed Income Quantitative Research
Lehman Brothers
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Education
2012 - 2015
Master's degree
North Carolina State University
1997 - 2000
Bachelor's degree
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Social presence
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Influence (I)

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