Jeff Judkins is a Staff Software Engineer at Amplitude with nine years of software experience building reliable, scalable products and tooling from the frontend to backend. He has progressed through engineering and leadership roles at Amplitude, Google, and Side, and brings a discipline honed earlier in his career as a reservoir engineer and U.S. Army squad leader. Jeff contributes to open-source projects such as react-redux-firebase, improving Firebase-Redux integrations and robustness for real-world apps. His background combines formal software training from MakerSquare with a BS in Chemical Engineering and study of Persian languages, reflecting unusual technical breadth and cross-cultural curiosity. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he focuses on shipping stable systems while mentoring teams and improving developer experience.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
Associate’s Degree, Iranian/Persian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Associate’s Degree, Iranian/Persian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at MakerSquare - School of Software Engineering
MBA Candidate, MBA Candidate at Harvard Business School
Redux bindings for Firebase. Includes React Hooks and Higher Order Components.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:3 releases, 6 commits, 11 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Jeff made several contributions to the `react-redux-firebase` repository, primarily focused on improving the functionality and stability of the library. Their work included adding support for profile parameter population, fixing a bug related to unwatching multiple queries, and ensuring that the profile data is correctly overwritten instead of merged. Additionally, the user made improvements to the underlying infrastructure by updating the version and adding logging for error handling.
Contributions:126 commits, 59 PRs, 45 pushes in 25 days
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Jeff Judkins - Staff Software Engineer at Amplitude