Jeff Plourd
Co-Founder & CEO at Snorkl
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Plourd is a full-stack software engineer and founder with 11 years of experience building scalable web and mobile products, currently serving as Co-Founder & CEO of Snorkl in San Diego. He has deep JavaScript expertise (React, Angular, Node/Express) and a proven track record designing performant realtime systems and databases, including a Firebase sharding architecture that cut read/write latency by 90% during explosive growth. At Classkick he owned web development, drove a 322% ARR shift through a business-model refactor, and helped the app achieve an industry-leading NPS of 72. His background as a 5th-grade teacher and Teach For America alum informs a persistent focus on creating beautiful, intuitive experiences that empower teachers and transform learning. Comfortable in TDD, pair programming, and egoless code review cultures, he blends hands-on engineering with product leadership and operational know-how (Kubernetes, scaling infra).
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Software Engineering Immersive, Advanced Software Engineering Immersive at Hack ReactorEducation, Education at University of Nevada-Las VegasBachelor of Science Criminal Justice; Minor Leadership Development, Bachelor of Science Criminal Justice; Minor Leadership Development at San Diego State UniversityLomonosov Moscow State University
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Github Skills (11)
kubernetes-deployment4
k8s3
helm3
react2
multiplayer2
typescript2
socket-io2
amazon-eks2
kubernetes2
javascript1
unicode1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
classkick/ck-pdfkit
Nov 2017 - Mar 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 4 months
jeffplourd/ck-pdfkit
Feb 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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