Geoff Hayman
VP Of Software Engineering at SnippetSentry
Novato, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarGeoff Hayman is a veteran software engineering leader based in Novato, California, with a multi-decade track record of building teams and architecting scalable, high-availability systems across startups and enterprise environments. As VP of Software Engineering he blends hands-on full‑stack development (Go, Python, Node/TypeScript, Java/C++) with expertise in data warehouses, ETL, NoSQL and cloud platforms (GCP/AWS), delivering localized customer-facing web and mobile products. He has repeatedly launched and restructured engineering orgs, managed distributed international teams and vendors, and led migrations to service-oriented, containerized architectures. Geoff pairs product-focused engineering with operational discipline—SQL/code tuning, DevOps and 99.999% availability design—so systems run reliably at scale. An active contributor to community projects, he has improved real-time messaging tooling (WhatsApp bot functionality) and frequently fixes deep integration and configuration issues. Beyond technical breadth, he brings a pragmatic emphasis on processes, mentoring and cross-company collaboration that turns complex requirements into shipped solutions.
6 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
puppeteer10
javascript10
whatsapp-stickers10
wp-api10
whatsapp-cloud-api10
bots10
api10
googlebot10
messagekit10
whatsapp10
chatbot10
api-design9
application-framework9
apim9
app-framework9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
orkestral/venom
Feb 2022 - Nov 2024
Venom is a high-performance system developed with JavaScript to create a bot for WhatsApp, support for creating any interaction, such as customer service, media sending, sentence recognition based on artificial intelligence and all types of design architecture for WhatsApp.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 13 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Geoff contributed to various aspects of the `venom` repository, primarily focusing on enhancements and bug fixes related to the WhatsApp bot functionality. Their work includes correcting parameter orders in the `sendButtons` function, fixing the `isLoggedIn()` function, and addressing issues with the `getGroupParticipant()` function. The commits also reflect the implementation of new features like `onMessageEdit()`, `onMessageDelete()`, and `onMessageReaction()` event notifications. They made several adjustments to the project's configuration, including changes to the puppeteer and authentication flows.
whatsappwhatsapp-webwhatsapp-apibotzap-api
venomlib/venom
Mar 2024 - Mar 2024
Venom is the most complete javascript library for Whatsapp, 100% Open Source.
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 comment in 1 day
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