Jeff Rifwald
Principal Front End Software Engineer at Aspira
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Rifwald is a Principal Front End Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance, user-focused web applications from startup to enterprise scale. He cut his teeth on web development as a child and formalized that passion with an M.S. in Computer Science, including a thesis applying OpenGL concepts to WebGL. Jeff has led front-end teams at Ambition and Walmart Grocery, helped open-source Walmart's Electrode platform, and contributed to notable projects like the electrode repo and Pachyderm's JupyterLab telemetry. He emphasizes code quality, testing, and performance, and pairs hands-on implementation (Webpack, React, TypeScript) with platform-level thinking around build and PWA tooling. Based in Knoxville, TN, he seeks high-impact roles where he can drive scalable front-end architecture and mentor engineering teams.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU)
Github Skills (19)
javascript10
web-application10
typescript10
jupyterlab10
analytics10
webpack10
webapp10
webpacker10
typescript-types10
css-modules10
typescripts10
react10
testing9
pwapp9
data-analysis9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
electrode-io/electrode
Jul 2016 - Feb 2017
Web applications with node.js and React
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 15 PRs, 41 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily contributed to the front-end development of the project, as evidenced by commits modifying configuration files, and source code related to CSS modules, webpack and service worker configuration. Their work involved adding support for CSS modules, including stylus support, implementing runtime caching for progressive web app (PWA) functionality, and updating build configurations. The contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the project's styling, build processes, and PWA capabilities.
recoiljsweb-appexpresscode-splittingpreact
pachyderm/pachyderm
Oct 2021 - Jan 2022
Data-Centric Pipelines and Data Versioning
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 10 commits, 5 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jeff implemented telemetry features within the JupyterLab extension for the Pachyderm project. Their work included adding a telemetry plugin, tracking command executions, and sending notebook actions to Rudderstack for analytics. They also added tests for the telemetry functionality and implemented click handler analytics.
containersanalyticsdata-analysispachydermpipeline
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