Jeff Kaufman
NAO Co-lead (Near-Term Detection) at SecureBio
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Kaufman is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years of experience building robust systems across front-end and back-end stacks, currently co-leading near-term detection efforts at the Nucleic Acid Observatory. He combines deep systems and browser expertise from roles at Google—improving web performance, privacy, and ads infrastructure—with a history of shipping backend optimizations for Nginx and mobile money reliability in low-bandwidth environments. Proficient in JavaScript, Python, C/C++, Bash, Linux and SQL, he has a track record of strengthening testing, CI, and build systems in open-source projects like AMP and the widely used icdiff tool. Jeff’s work blends pragmatic engineering with research-minded problem solving—he pivoted from web performance to pathogen detection infrastructure—bringing uncommon breadth from language tools and NLP research to production-scale web tooling. Based in Somerville, MA, he is motivated by operational rigor and measurable impact, often improving observability and testability behind the scenes.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Commonwealth High SchoolBA Computer Science Linguistics, BA Computer Science Linguistics at Swarthmore College
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Github Skills (35)
javascript10
c-language10
python10
ampl10
testing10
google-amp10
cicd10
chai10
nginx-module10
amp-html10
cprogramming-language10
test-automation10
scripting9
http9
shell9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
apache/incubator-pagespeed-ngx
Jun 2012 - Jan 2017
Automatic PageSpeed optimization module for Nginx
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:998 commits, 122 PRs, 223 pushes in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jeff focused on implementing the core features of an automatic PageSpeed optimization module for Nginx. They integrated a library (PSOL) for page optimization, utilized chunked encoding, and modified the buffer chain for HTML processing. They refactored the module, modified the buffer as it passes to rewrite resources, and implemented code for handling the server-side includes, and finally contributed to the project's build system by adding scripts.
nginxprefetchoptimizationpagespeedweb-performance
jeffkaufman/icdiff
Aug 2010 - Dec 2022
improved colored diff
Role in this project:Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:23 reviews, 131 commits, 62 PRs in 12 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily focused on enhancing the testing and build infrastructure of the `icdiff` project. They added tests to cover various functionalities, including tab size, color maps, and file handling. They also implemented a continuous integration setup and Git integration for automated testing. The contributions indicate a focus on improving the reliability and maintainability of the project through comprehensive testing and build processes.
version-controlimprovedmercurialrustgit-addons
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