Greg Mefford
Senior Staff Backend Engineer at Frame.io
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolGreg Mefford is a Senior Staff Backend Engineer in Cincinnati with 15 years of experience building resilient hardware-software systems, currently driving backend work at Frame.io. Trained as an electrical and computer engineer, he blends embedded systems pragmatism with cloud-scale backend design, having led hardware-software projects at Le Tote and designed flight electronics for space launch vehicles earlier in his career. He has held senior roles across media and supply-chain platforms (Bleacher Report, Stord), bringing full-stack sensibilities to distributed systems and orchestration problems. An active contributor to the influential Nerves project, Greg applies Elixir and Nerves to craft bulletproof embedded solutions and improve build and Docker tooling. Colleagues rely on him for cross-domain problem solving that spans board-level design through production backend services—a rare combination that accelerates hardware-enabled product delivery.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering at University of Cincinnati
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Github Skills (16)
embedded10
docker10
dockers10
elixir10
elixir-mix9
system-configuration9
build-system9
bash8
script8
scripting8
git7
redmine6
scrum6
svn6
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
nerves-project/nerves
May 2016 - Oct 2019
Craft and deploy bulletproof embedded software in Elixir
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:85 commits, 59 PRs, 76 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Greg primarily contributed to the Nerves project, a framework for embedded software development. Their work involved fixing typos, improving documentation, and adding features to the build process and system configuration. They demonstrated expertise in system shell interactions, Docker integration, and build process improvements. The commits also revealed an understanding of the underlying Elixir environment and related tools.
nerveselixirembedded-softwarecraftbulletproof
spandex-project/spandex_ecto
Aug 2018 - Dec 2021
Tools for integrating Ecto with Spandex
Contributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 14 commits in 3 years 3 months
integratingelixirecto
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