Don Pflaster
Principal Software Engineer at Voices of Gotham
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolDon Pflaster is a Principal Software Engineer based in Jersey City with over two decades of experience and 13 years focused on web applications and databases, notably more than a decade in the event ticketing industry. He leads engineering at Automatiq, bringing deep expertise in Elixir/Phoenix and PostgreSQL to build concurrent, low-latency systems that power real-time synchronization for ticket platforms. Previously a CTO and senior engineer across startups and enterprise teams, he blends hands-on implementation (Ruby/Rails, Java, Perl, PHP) with infrastructure experience on AWS and traditional cloud environments. Don champions Elixir not just as a language preference but as a pragmatic solution for high-concurrency product requirements, and he often pairs it with Postgres as a cost-effective, reliable data layer. Outside of code he’s an avid barbershop bass singer and cat lover, a detail that speaks to his collaborative, harmony-driven approach to teams.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
B.S Management Information Systems, B.S Management Information Systems at University of Central Florida
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Github Skills (103)
genstage10
filtering10
scalable10
elixir10
sorting10
grid10
encoder9
queue9
job-queue9
stream9
ecto9
programming-language9
datatable9
pagination9
datagrid9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mjording/rubygames
Oct 2016 - Dec 2024
Contributions:2 PRs in 8 years 3 months
darksheik/hound
Dec 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:30 pushes, 8 branches, 1 comment in 1 year 11 months
elixir-librarybrowsertestingelixirautomation
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