Jeff Weiss
Senior Staff Backend Engineer at Adobe
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Weiss is a Senior Staff Backend Engineer and seasoned technology leader with 11+ years building resilient, high-throughput distributed systems across industrial IoT, energy, and logistics domains. He led fleet-control and meta-SCADA platforms that dramatically increased telemetry throughput and enabled remote autonomy for low-cost energy and virtual power plant deployments, pairing deep Elixir/Erlang expertise with robust DevOps and real-time analytics. Jeff has driven production reliability improvements—from 300x telemetry ingest gains to CI/CD and multi-architecture signing pipelines—and led teams to deliver measurable business outcomes like increased revenue and operational scalability. A long-time open-source contributor, he has expanded RabbitMQ tutorials and enhanced Elixir tooling such as tentacat, reflecting a knack for improving developer experience and documentation. Based in Portland, he combines hands-on engineering with strategic roadmap leadership and a practical orientation toward highly available, maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
MBA International Business, MBA International Business at Keller Graduate School of ManagementBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Kansas State University
German, English
Github Skills (25)
website-development10
amqp10
elixir10
message-queue10
rabbitmq10
ruby10
github-api10
pagination10
macos10
website-design10
documentation10
api-design9
basics9
learn-ruby-on-rails9
user-manual9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
rabbitmq/rabbitmq-tutorials
Dec 2015 - Jul 2018
Tutorials for using RabbitMQ in various ways
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily contributed Elixir code examples and documentation to the RabbitMQ tutorials repository. Their work included implementing the Elixir versions of the tutorials, covering topics like sending and receiving messages, working with queues, exchanges, and RPC calls. The user updated the code to be compatible with later versions of Elixir and the AMQP library. They added and updated Elixir code snippets for different tutorial scenarios.
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rabbitmq/rabbitmq-website
Dec 2015 - Jul 2018
RabbitMQ website
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily contributed to the RabbitMQ website documentation. Their work focused on adding Elixir tutorials to the website's tutorial menu. The commits involved modifying the `tutorials-menu.xml.inc` file to include links for tutorials 1 through 6 in Elixir, indicating a direct effort to expand and enhance the existing documentation. This suggests a focus on improving the user experience by providing Elixir-specific guides for using RabbitMQ.
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