Jeff Potts
Principal Architect at Apple
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Potts is a Principal Architect based in Austin with over two decades focused on Enterprise Content Management, open source, and search technologies, currently applying that expertise at Apple. He founded and led Metaversant and has driven ECM strategy and community engagement at Alfresco and numerous consulting firms, delivering solutions for clients like Sony Pictures, Activision, Southwest Airlines, and PepsiCo. Technically fluent across Java, JavaScript, Python, Alfresco/CMIS, and Elasticsearch, he blends hands-on full‑stack engineering with architecture and product selection. An advocate for openness, he has been a visible community leader—writing, speaking at large events, planning conferences, and mentoring teams. His open-source contributions include full-stack work on notable projects such as Mozilla’s Mozillians, showing practical Django and front-end problem solving. He values working with positive, talented teams and aims to simplify business processes through transparent, collaborative technology.
16 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, MBA at The University of Texas at DallasBBA, BBA at University of Oklahoma
Stackoverflow
10,518reputation
460kreached
401answers
3questions
java
top-5%
Github Skills (16)
mozilla10
python10
django10
webservice9
java9
css7
html7
content-management-system6
maven6
alfresco6
javascript6
alfresco-share6
cmis6
activiti6
opencmis6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/mozillians
Feb 2014 - Apr 2014
Mozilla community directory -- A centralized directory of all Mozilla contributors!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily contributed to bug fixes and minor feature enhancements within the Mozillians project. Their work involved both front-end (HTML/CSS) and back-end (Python/Django) modifications, as evidenced by changes to templates, models, and administrative functionalities. Specific tasks included fixing UI issues, modifying group management features, adding external account options, and updating email templates. The user demonstrated proficiency in the Django framework.
centralizedmozilladirectory
jpotts/alfresco-api-python-examples
Oct 2012 - Mar 2015
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 issue in 2 years 5 months
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