Jeff Olhoeft
Senior Software Engineer at Electronic Arts (EA)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Olhoeft is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with over a decade of experience building full-stack and systems software across startups and large enterprises, currently at Electronic Arts and founder of Kukaret Heavy Industries. He brings deep language fluency—from Rust and JavaScript to C/C++ and Perl—and a track record modernizing open-source Rust web frameworks by upgrading dependencies, refactoring core server behavior, and improving middleware and template reloading. Jeff pairs strong data analysis and presentation skills with embedded and Linux/Unix expertise, honed through roles at Amazon, Zulily, and network-management-focused companies dating back to the late 1990s. He also blends engineering with hands-on creative leadership, having led embedded lighting and fabrication work for a Burning Man art project. A physics graduate, he approaches problems quantitatively and is comfortable navigating both low-level systems work and high-level product delivery.
10 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Physics, B.S., Physics at Case Western Reserve University
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Github Skills (8)
hyper10
rust10
serde10
rendering9
render9
templating9
dependency-management9
web-framework9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nickel-org/nickel.rs
May 2017 - Aug 2021
An expressjs inspired web framework for Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 40 commits, 51 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily contributed to upgrading dependencies, fixing examples, and implementing new features. They addressed issues related to middleware and template reloading. Furthermore, the user worked on refactoring code for hyper-0.14.x, which involved significant changes to the server, response handling, and other core functionalities. These changes include modifications to headers, body management and file handling.
expressjsrustjavascriptframeworknodejs
jolhoeft/nickel.rs
Jan 2016 - Aug 2021
An expressjs inspired web framework for Rust
Contributions:112 pushes, 8 branches, 1 issue in 5 years 7 months
expressjsrustweb-appjavascriptframework
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