Jeff Gordon
Sr. Software Engineer at Optum
Davenport, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Gordon is a senior software engineer with six years of experience building pharmacy healthcare applications, currently driving product delivery at Optum from Davenport, Iowa. He blends full-stack expertise with a practical focus on UI/UX and platform-specific behavior—evidenced by contributions to a Linux-focused fork of GitHub Desktop where he improved cross-platform shortcuts, refined the About modal for Linux, and integrated packaging scripts. Prior to Optum he helped scale pharmacy tech at divvyDOSE, bringing domain knowledge in healthcare workflows to engineering decisions. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic refactors that improve developer and user experience alike, and he combines hands-on coding with an appreciation for distribution and deployment details that often go unnoticed.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Iowa State UniversityWestern Illinois University
Github Skills (15)
linux10
javascript10
electron10
debian10
typescript-types9
command-line9
cli9
ui-design9
typescript9
typescripts9
command-line-interface9
uid9
ux-design8
front-end-development8
git6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
shiftkey/desktop
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
Fork of GitHub Desktop to support various Linux distributions
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:246 commits, 10 PRs, 36 comments in 16 days
Contributions summary:Jeff contributed to the GitHub Desktop application by addressing UI/UX issues and implementing platform-specific behaviors. They refactored the keyboard shortcut for creating issues, making it consistent across platforms. The user also updated the "About" modal on Linux, removing unsupported features and adding links to the Linux releases page. Furthermore, the user integrated command-line scripts into the Debian package.
github-desktoplinux-distribution
jfgordon2/serverless-python-requirements
Jul 2023 - Oct 2024
⚡️🐍📦 Serverless plugin to bundle Python packages
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
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