Jeff Meyerson is a founder, writer, and investor with 13 years of software industry experience based in San Francisco, best known for founding and hosting Software Engineering Daily. He blends hands-on engineering experience at companies like Amazon and eBay with entrepreneurial instincts—launching multiple communities and startups (FindCollabs, Adforprize, Supercompute) and authoring Move Fast: How Facebook Builds Software. As an active angel investor, he backs developer-focused startups such as Chronosphere, Elementl, and Axiom.ai, signaling a focus on observability, data, and developer tooling. Jeff’s background includes building production services in Java/PHP/JS and an early career in competitive poker, which sharpened his risk assessment and decision-making under pressure.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences
Contributions:45 commits, 1 push in 3 years 2 months
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