Jeff Schnitzer
Principal Software Engineer at Hard Rock Digital
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Schnitzer is a Principal Software Engineer in San Francisco with 20 years of experience building high-scale web and backend systems, currently leading engineering at Hard Rock Digital. A serial founder and consultant, he has built and scaled profitable marketplaces and print-on-demand platforms, led a small team to nine-figure revenue, and contributed core pieces to platforms like Cloud Foundry and Objectify. His work spans Java, Python, Node.js, mobile backends, real-time matching engines, and high-performance simulation for pharma—demonstrating comfort across systems from OLAP analytics to realtime services. Jeff combines hands-on coding with product-driven entrepreneurship, repeatedly shipping end-to-end solutions that integrate complex third-party ecosystems (Shopify, Etsy, CDN and print partners). Active in the developer community (github: stickfigure, longtime Hacker News presence), he brings a pragmatic, broadly curious mindset—quoting Heinlein, he prefers generalist mastery over narrow specialization. Collected experience ranges from founding startups to CTO and senior roles at EA and other scale-focused companies, showing a rare mix of technical depth and operational leadership.
20 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
English, Spanish
Github Skills (200)
jsog10
client-library10
modular10
google-cloud-datastore10
dependency-injection10
spanner10
java-programming10
guice10
appengine10
protocol-buffers10
protobuf10
rpc10
injection10
jsinterop10
datastore10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
stickfigure/gstrap-gae
Oct 2017 - Dec 2023
Remove boilerplate from a Google App Engine project
Contributions:54 pushes, 1 branch, 18 tags in 6 years 2 months
objectify/objectify-insight
Aug 2014 - Aug 2018
Insight into your Google App Engine datastore costs
Contributions:68 commits, 9 PRs, 22 pushes in 4 years
gcpgoogle-appappengineapp-enginegoogle
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