Jeff Auriemma is a Senior Engineering Manager with 12 years of experience leading high-performing teams and shipping client libraries and consumer-facing features at scale. Currently at Apollo GraphQL, he empowers engineers on Apollo Client, iOS, and Kotlin through clear priorities, trust, and a career ladder he helped design to raise IC expectations. His background spans full-stack and front-end engineering—shipping performance improvements, GraphQL migrations, and UI work demonstrated by contributions to Web Audio DAW and a widely used react-div-100vh fix. Jeff combines hands-on coding and architecture with hiring and process redesign, moving recruiting from siloed teams to a cohort-based system and drafting interview rubrics. A former music educator and active musician, he brings a teach-first leadership style that emphasizes mentorship, clarity, and sustainable pace. Based in Monroe, CT, he balances developer experience, open-source stewardship, and practical product impact.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Morristown High School
Bachelor of Music Music Education, Bachelor of Music Music Education at The College of New Jersey
A workaround for the '100vh' issue in mobile browsers
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 17 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily focused on enhancing the `react-div-100vh` component, a React library designed to address the '100vh' issue in mobile browsers. Their contributions involved refactoring the component's internal implementation, transitioning from using `createRef` to ref callbacks and ultimately to a state-driven approach. They also addressed bugs in the code and improved the test suite to ensure the component behaved as expected. Furthermore, they refactored the component to calculate the height dynamically.
Web Audio DAW. Use the Web Audio API for dynamic sound synthesis. It's like jQuery for your ears.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:7 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily contributed to the development of a graphical user interface (GUI) for the Web Audio DAW. Their work involved creating an HTML-based GUI with elements for controlling audio parameters like volume, pitch, and filter settings. They added HTML elements for various controls and linked JavaScript and CSS files for interactivity and styling. Further commits refined the GUI's structure and included the integration of slider controls for parameter adjustments, which points to a focus on improving the user experience through interactive controls.
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Jeff Auriemma - Senior Engineering Manager at Apollo GraphQL