Jeff Meadows
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb
Santa Rosa, California, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Meadows is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 12+ years building reliable, integrative systems and APIs, now at Airbnb after a long tenure leading backend and sync infrastructure at Box. He blends deep systems and desktop Sync experience with a passion for open source—contributing meaningful fixes and metadata/shared-link support to the widely used box-python-sdk. Known for making disparate systems work together, he focuses on clean APIs, observability (dashboards for client errors), and mentoring engineers. Trained in chemistry, computer science, and mathematics at Penn State, he brings a pragmatic, research-informed approach to solving complex integration and distributed systems problems.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Chemistry Computer Science Mathematics, Bachelor of Science Chemistry Computer Science Mathematics at Penn State University
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Github Skills (14)
api10
sdk10
python10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
metadata9
html9
ajax6
css6
php6
javascript6
google-maps-api6
jquery6
google-visualization6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
box/box-python-sdk
Feb 2015 - Aug 2018
Box SDK for Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 releases, 2 reviews, 147 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily contributed to the Box Python SDK by implementing features and fixing bugs within the codebase. They added support for metadata and shared link functionality, along with refactoring for improved code quality. Additionally, the user bumped the version number and improved the demo code.
box-sdkpythonsdkbox
box/flaky
Apr 2014 - Aug 2021
Contributions:24 releases, 202 commits, 129 PRs in 7 years 5 months
pythonflakytestingrerunsflaky-tests
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