Summary
Jeff Rogers is a Principal Software Developer with over 16 years of experience building backend, browser, and mobile applications and more than five years leading engineering teams. Currently at Wealthsimple, he has progressed from Staff to Principal roles, driving complex projects from concept to production while focusing on high-quality user experiences. He brings deep systems and cloud expertise—Java/Kotlin/Python stacks, microservices, streaming (Kafka/Kinesis), and AWS/Docker/Kubernetes—paired with practical CI/CD and observability experience. Known for jumping into gritty technical work as well as mentoring teams, he blends hands-on coding with architecture and delivery leadership. Based in Canada and grounded in a Waterloo engineering background, he excels at shipping reliable, scalable systems and integrating security and messaging patterns into real-world products.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BASc, BASc at University of Waterloo