Jessica Rush
Jessica is a full-stack developer whose career, shaped by exploration, shows that the most interesting paths aren’t linear. Currently leading front-end development for Missionloops, she’s building tools that help people work together to solve complex problems and make real progress on their goals. This mission resonates with her own journey through education, hands-on craftsmanship, and increasingly complex technical challenges.
In 2005, Jessica began teaching Digital Graphic Design at Vancouver Community College, where she emphasized that every design choice should be intentional and grounded in solid principles. She taught students to build and deploy functional websites, prioritizing usability and accessibility from the foundation up. Visual craft carried equal weight. As Department Head, she watched students from her nine-month program earn Applied Arts Magazine awards, competing against graduates from three-year design programs, proving that focused, practical education could deliver real results. After seven years in education, she took a deliberate detour through woodworking, joinery and CNC programming to develop hands-on skills she could carry for life, before returning to tech with renewed focus and a clearer sense of what she wanted to build.
Drawing on her curriculum development expertise, she designed her own learning path in back-end development, building production-level experience in Python and JavaScript. Her work since then has included an app and dashboard for a renewable energy company that aggregated CAN bus data from inverter-chargers, solar charge controllers, and battery management systems, using MQTT and real-time socket.io communication to power a clean UI. What Jessica brings to Missionloops is more than technical skill with React, Next.js, and modern web development. It’s the ability to see problems from multiple angles, explain complex concepts clearly, and build interfaces that people can actually work with.
She’s been designing and building for the web since 2005, with the same conviction throughout: powerful tools shouldn’t feel complicated to use.
Email: jessica (at) missionloops (dot) ca