Jessica Rush

Jessica is a full-stack developer and designer who proves that the best career paths aren't always linear. Currently leading front-end development for Missionloops, she's building tools that help people work together to solve complex problems — a mission that resonates with her own journey through education, hands-on craftsmanship, and increasingly complex technical challenges.

For seven years, Jessica taught 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 fully functional websites, emphasizing usability and accessibility from the ground up. As Department Head, she watched her students from a nine-month program compete successfully against graduates from three-year degree programs, proving that focused, practical education could deliver real results. After seven years in education, she took what you might call an unconventional detour through woodworking and CNC programming before finding her way back to tech with a renewed focus and clearer sense of what she wanted to build.

Drawing on her curriculum development expertise, she designed her own learning path in back-end development, mastering Python and JavaScript. She built several applications and dashboards including one for a renewable energy company that aggregated CAN bus data from inverter-chargers, solar charge controllers, and battery management systems into a clean interface using MQTT and real-time socket.io communication. 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 use. She's been designing and building for the web since 2005, and she's still driven by the same question: how do we make powerful tools accessible to everyone who needs them?

Email: jessica (at) missionloops (dot) ca