Brenda Jin

Brenda Jin is a web developer specializing in Tablet Prototyping at Macys.com. She is the lead technologist on pilot agile team whose goal is to discover best practices and ecommerce opportunities on tablets.

She has won first place at hackathons for projects that range from Internet of Things to native mobile applications.

The first time Brenda ever programmed was with the Princeton Laptop Orchestra using a language called ChucK in 2009. She started learning JavaScript in January 2013 through Girl Develop It, tons of JS and paired programming meetups, and resourceful self study. Brenda got her start in UX by optimizing nonprofit websites and internal database interfaces.

Brenda gives talks on interaction design and rapid prototyping in San Francisco and abroad.