Jeff Putz is a delivery-oriented engineering leader and servant manager with 13 years of formal experience and a career stretching back to the early web era. He has repeatedly led teams through scaling and productization—driving measurable outcomes like 75% cost reductions, 90% fewer support cases, and multi-million-dollar ARR integrations—across startups and larger firms including Angi, Olo, and PowerDMS. A hands-on architect, he has built high-performance microservices, improved API latencies to sub-5ms with conventional AWS tooling, and pioneered instrumentation and on-call practices company-wide. He maintains POP Forums as an open-source project since 2003 and runs popular enthusiast sites (PointBuzz, CoasterBuzz) that together demonstrate his long-running commitment to community-driven platforms and high-traffic content. Based in Florida, Jeff blends pragmatic engineering, mentoring and hiring acumen with a knack for rapid prototyping—often using AI tools—to turn complex requirements into reliable, revenue-driving systems.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Radio/TV, Journalism-English (double major), BA, Radio/TV, Journalism-English (double major) at Ashland University
A sample implementation using POP Forums packages, for ASP.NET Core.
Contributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 3 years 5 months
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Jeff Putz - Chief Hobbyist at POP World Media, LLC