Jeff Nelson
Co-Founder, Chief Operating Officer
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Nelson is a software engineer based in Atlanta with 12 years of experience and a founder background at Cinchapi and Blavity, building where technology, business, culture, and public policy meet. He specializes in backend and distributed systems engineering, contributing to the open-source cinchapi/concourse project — a distributed database warehouse — with hands-on Java work around data storage, indexing, REGEX search handling, and concurrency edge cases. Jeff combines pragmatic engineering with entrepreneurial instincts, shipping reliability-focused fixes and architectural improvements that keep large-scale data searchable over time. His interest in culture and policy helps shape product and company decisions beyond pure technical execution.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis
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Github Skills (21)
back-end-development10
indexing10
java10
javas10
database-design10
full-text-search10
datastructures9
datastructure9
data-structure9
concurrent9
algorithm9
algorithms9
concurrent-programming9
performance-optimization9
concurrency9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cinchapi/concourse
Dec 2012 - Nov 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 releases, 5376 commits, 572 PRs in 10 years
Contributions summary:Jeff's contributions primarily focus on enhancing the backend logic of the Concourse system. The commits include modifications to the Java-based Concourse code, specifically related to data storage, indexing, and the handling of search operations with the REGEX operator, and improvements to the database and the indexing process. The user also addressed concurrency issues and edge cases related to the proper processing of values in the database.
analyticswarehousenosqlmysqlsql
cinchapi/data-extract-api
Mar 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:1 release, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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