Jeff Saracco
Staff Software Engineering Manager at GitHub
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Saracco is a Staff Software Engineering Manager at GitHub with 14 years of experience building and scaling developer-facing products while leading teams from senior engineer to staff management roles. Based in Ithaca, NY, he advances engineering culture and technical excellence at GitHub, combining hands-on full‑stack problem-solving—evidenced by contributions to projects like a CI dashboard aggregator—with thoughtful mentorship through programs like Mentors in Tech. His background spans startups and media tech (Mashable) to consultancy and engineering leadership, giving him a pragmatic approach to shipping reliable, maintainable systems. Known for improving testability and operational robustness in legacy tooling, he brings a deliberate focus on developer productivity and measurable impact.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science Mathematics, BA Computer Science Mathematics at SUNY Geneseo
English
Stackoverflow
1,269reputation
202kreached
27answers
4questions
Github Skills (20)
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
capybara9
rspec9
backbone8
backbonejs8
javascript8
coffeescript8
google-maps-api6
routes6
mongodb6
upsert6
asp-net6
google-maps6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
vmware-archive/projectmonitor
Feb 2013 - Feb 2013
Big Visible Chart CI aggregator
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 7 days
Contributions summary:Jeff's commits indicate a focus on improving the functionality and maintainability of the project. They introduced Capybara-webkit for testing, fixed issues related to the order of elements in the tracker graph and build history display. Further improvements included resolving problems with aggregate tags and addressing a bug that caused projects to become stuck in the "building" state. Additionally, the user adjusted the project polling interval.
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jeffsaracco/Ulysses_bot
Jul 2012 - Jun 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 1 branch in 4 years
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