Geoff Berger is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of full‑stack experience building scalable web platforms, developer tooling, and backend services across industries from e‑commerce to SaaS and manufacturing. He’s comfortable shipping both frontend experiences (React, Redux, UI architecture) and Go-based backend systems, and has driven platform and build improvements at companies including Slack and Zappos. A collaborative mentor and architect, Geoff regularly elevates team practices—introducing testing, modularization, and developer workflows—while still contributing hands-on code. He’s an active open-source contributor to notable projects like go-kit, improving HTTP transport and context propagation for microservices. Based in Las Vegas, he combines deep implementation expertise with a track record of making complex systems more maintainable and testable.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Information Management, MS, Information Management at Syracuse University
BS, Professional Technical Communications, BS, Professional Technical Communications at State University of New York Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome
AAS, Computer Information Systems, AAS, Computer Information Systems at Onondaga Community College
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Geoff primarily contributed to the `transport/http` package of the go-kit library, adding functionality related to HTTP client and server communication. Their work involved adding and updating client options, specifically `ClientResponseFunc`, to enhance the handling of HTTP responses. They also modified test cases to include the new features. Furthermore, the user made updates to support context propagation.
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