Gideon Pfeffer
Software Engineer at Facebook
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGideon Pfeffer is a software engineer in San Francisco with nine years of experience building scalable, safety-minded systems across industry and academia. Currently on Facebook’s NodeAPI team, he focuses on efficient, multi-language data access for social graph services and has a strong interest in algorithms, distributed systems, and compilers. He has a track record of driving measurable impact—e.g., halving outstanding conflicts with an automated alerting system during an Ads internship—and has led engineering teams as Director of Engineering at HackDuke. Gideon also brings teaching and research experience from Duke, mentoring students in software design, AI, and algorithms and conducting wet-lab computational biology work, a combination that hints at a pragmatic, interdisciplinary problem-solving style. He holds degrees in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science from Duke and enjoys translating deep technical ideas into accessible solutions and better developer workflows.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Duke UniversityFauquier High School
English
Github Skills (8)
react5
javascript5
css4
duke4
espn4
spring3
python3
portal2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
gidpfeffer/CS270HelperSessions
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:27 commits, 17 pushes in 3 months
gidpfeffer/CS270_python_bootcamp
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Guide to be used to get students up to speed in Python 3 for CS 270 at Duke, Spring 2019.
Contributions:25 commits, 1 PR, 18 pushes in 5 days
pythonspeeddukepython-scriptpython-3
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