Gabe Heafitz
Backend Engineer at Doctronic
Glen Rock, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGabe Heafitz is a Backend Engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable, consumer-oriented products for startups and scale-ups from NYC to New Jersey. He’s shipped high-impact systems at Spotify that drove 700K incremental monthly active users and led engineering education initiatives to raise code quality across the organization. As a founder and founding engineer he took an AI-driven recruiting product from 0 to a polished MVP that automated early interview stages, demonstrating both product instincts and end-to-end execution. His background spans backend services, iOS refactoring contributions (notably improving the PNChart library), Java and Ruby systems, and practical ML/heuristic-driven platforms. Gabe pairs hands-on coding and architectural work with mentoring and process improvements that turn unreliable releases into dependable bi-weekly delivery. He holds an MEng and BS in Computer Science from Cornell and favors fun, consumer-focused projects where technical craftsmanship meets real user impact.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MEng, Computer Science, MEng, Computer Science at Cornell University
Github Skills (8)
objective-c10
ios10
refactoring10
lib10
refactor10
ui-design9
interface-design9
uid9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kevinzhow/PNChart
Oct 2014 - Oct 2014
A simple and beautiful chart lib used in Piner and CoinsMan for iOS
Role in this project:
iOS Mobile Developer
iOS Mobile DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Gabe primarily focused on refactoring and improving the code quality of the PNChart library. Their contributions involved optimizing imports, fixing comments to improve clarity, renaming variables for consistency, and removing unused code elements. They also addressed spelling errors and refactored the point style enums for the line chart to enhance user experience and maintainability of the chart library.
ioschart
Noreaster76/svm-presentation
Apr 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:14 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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