Jeff Mcaffer
Self Employed
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Mcaffer is a veteran software leader and open source evangelist whose career spans founding core Eclipse technologies to directing Microsoft's Open Source Programs Office and enabling organizations at GitHub to adopt open source at scale. He combines deep technical expertise in modular runtimes, IDEs, language design and virtual machines with hands-on entrepreneurial experience as a founder and CTO. Jeff helped shepherd Microsoft’s transformation into an open source-first company, founded ClearlyDefined.io to improve OSS licensing and security metadata, and remains active sharing insights at conferences and on his blog. He holds a PhD from the University of Tokyo and has a rare blend of research pedigree and practical product leadership. Now officially retired, he stays busier than ever building race cars, houses and machines while still advising open source projects and ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
40 years of employment as a software developer
University of TokyoMCS Software, MCS Software at Carleton University
Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
visual-studio10
crawler10
github-issues10
ruby10
octokit10
editor10
line-app10
browser-extension10
cloudy10
microsoft10
chrome-extension10
compliance10
firefox-addon10
cra10
sdk10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
clearlydefined/service
Dec 2017 - Mar 2019
The service side of clearlydefined.io
Contributions:1 review, 386 commits, 207 PRs in 1 year 3 months
reacttypescriptservice-side
microsoft/ghrequestor
Oct 2016 - Jun 2017
A resilient, rate-limit aware GitHub API client.
Contributions:49 commits, 6 pushes in 7 months
api-clientapirate-limitresilient
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