Kris Stern
Kris has been helping out with Jenkins’s GSoC participation organization since 2022 and has volunteered to be a project mentor. She has participated in GSoC twice as a contributor/student previously in 2019 and 2020, and has been trained academically as an astrophysicist with a PhD in the discipline of observational astronomy obtained from the University of Hong Kong in 2021. Professionally Kris works in the IT sector as a software engineer / programmer. She has work experience in Python, C++, Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS/Sass, JQuery, SQL, PHP, and have completed projects in software development, artificial intelligence/deep learning/computer vision, Qt programming, and web development. Kris is passionate about open-source and would like to share this passion with fellow learners.