Jeff Mealo
Senior Platform Engineer
Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Mealo is a Senior Platform Engineer with 13 years of experience designing reliable, cost-conscious infrastructure and scalable back-end systems. He blends event sourcing, functional programming, and practical ML/IoT curiosity to simplify complex problems, and is a passionate advocate for PostgreSQL and open source. Jeff has a track record of driving measurable savings and platform improvements—migrating address validation to save $400K/year, enabling Apple Silicon support across CI/CD, and shrinking analytical storage with CitusDB to achieve sub-100ms queries. He’s comfortable across the stack, from real-time DB change streaming and edge session architectures to shipping cross-platform CI solutions for mobile emulation. Notably, he contributes to established OSS projects like twig.js and has backported security fixes and instrumentation improvements that were merged upstream. Based in Pennsylvania, he combines hands-on implementation with system-level thinking to move teams from legacy monoliths to event-sourced, observable platforms.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) at West Chester University of Pennsylvania
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Github Skills (14)
unit-testing10
javascript10
twig10
templating10
data-manipulation9
debugging6
plpgsql6
plv86
postgresql6
database6
command-line6
plugin6
materialized-view6
intellij-idea6
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
twigjs/twig.js
Jun 2014 - Feb 2015
JS implementation of the Twig Templating Language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 15 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily contributed to the implementation of new features and functions within the Twig.js templating library. Their work included adding a batch filter, round filter, and random function, enhancing the library's capabilities. They also improved the functionality by implementing a test for iterable data types and matching PHP functionality for the random function. Additionally, the user added dist files, likely related to build and distribution processes.
template-enginetwigtemplatingphptemplating-language
jmealo/cloudnative-pg
Nov 2024 - Mar 2025
CloudNativePG is a comprehensive platform designed to seamlessly manage PostgreSQL databases within Kubernetes environments, covering the entire operational lifecycle from initial deployment to ongoing maintenance
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 66 pushes in 3 months
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