Jeff Deville
Principal Engineer at dbt Labs
Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Deville is a transformational technical leader and entrepreneur with 16+ years building high-performance, regulated systems and coaching teams to connect technical choices to business outcomes. As a co-founder and hands-on architect, he has rescued stalled projects, delivered 1,000% performance gains, and spun up market-ready products and integrations in weeks rather than months. He blends deep domain immersion with first-principles engineering—applying graph theory, DAG pipelines, and agentic AI for complex healthcare and fintech problems while shipping multi-tenant, low-latency systems in Elixir, Rust, Python and more. Trusted by C-suite executives and VCs alike, he crafts strategic roadmaps that preserve optionality for rapid pivots and has repeatedly converted advisory engagements into long-term roles. Equally comfortable in DoD, DOE, HIPAA and PCI environments, he staffs and scales teams that thrive under rigorous security and compliance constraints. Outside software he patents physical products, builds custom IoT devices that fuse mechanical engineering with AI, and coaches youth sports—demonstrating a practical maker’s instinct beyond code.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaBS MIS, BS MIS at University of Arizona - Eller College of Management
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
epic10
visual-studio-extension10
ecto10
wallaby10
hex9
angular9
testing9
plug9
administration9
integrate9
screensaver9
serialization9
vscode-extension9
elixir9
user-experience9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
withbelay/workflow_ex
Feb 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 reviews, 13 PRs, 49 pushes in 1 year 8 months
tweag/tenantex
Jan 2017 - Sep 2019
Multi-tenant support for Ecto (Elixir)
Contributions:26 commits, 15 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years 8 months
elixirmulti-tenant
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