CJ Apel
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCJ Apel is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building reliable backend systems and developer tooling across Go, Ruby, Python, and TypeScript. He has driven large cross-team initiatives—most notably an OIDC authentication service at LiveRamp that sped up app integrations and won internal recognition—and led product and revenue-impacting work at Comulate during a period of rapid growth. Comfortable across cloud and infra (Docker, Kubernetes, GCP, AWS) and front-end basics, he focuses on security, UX, and operability when shipping systems. CJ prefers working through trusted networks and emphasizes collaboration and clear communication in complex projects. He brings an unusual blend of creative-writing training and hands-on engineering, which shows in pragmatic documentation, developer experience improvements, and tooling that reduces onboarding friction.
10 years of coding experience
Hack ReactorBA Creative Writing, BA Near-Eastern Studies, BA Creative Writing, BA Near-Eastern Studies at University of Michigan
English, French, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
99reputation
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Github Skills (39)
rescript9
api8
documentation-generator8
api-documentation8
asyncapi8
javascript8
altjs7
json7
compiler6
html6
openapi6
mochajs6
chai6
swagger6
jquery6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cjea/CSI
Aug 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:36 pushes, 5 branches in 11 months
Breezy-Pickles/Breezy-Pickles
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:22 PRs, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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