Summary
Jeff Stokes is a Lead Engineer in Seattle with 13 years building and architecting large-scale, event-driven distributed systems, particularly in ad tech and consumer data platforms. A functional programming enthusiast, he has driven high-throughput real-time services (100K rps prototypes) and helped move monolithic, batch systems to fault-tolerant streaming architectures using Scala, Kafka, Storm and related stacks. At Amperity he blends systems engineering with applied machine learning and data science to operationalize models for marketing use cases. He’s pragmatic about engineering practices—introducing CI/CD, automated testing and code review pipelines across teams—and enjoys exploring hobby projects on GitHub that reflect his interest in marrying functional design with data-driven systems.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at East Carolina University