Summary
Jeffrey Defond is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native backend systems and improving developer experiences across healthcare and consumer streaming domains. He has led transitions from serverless REST to federated GraphQL, designed microservice APIs, and maintained legacy infrastructure using Go, Python, Kubernetes, Terraform and AWS. As an engineering manager at ClearDATA he combined technical delivery with coaching to make teams more productive and resilient. Currently shaping account services at Crunchyroll, he brings practical expertise in payment-ledger systems, compliance tooling, and infra automation. Grounded in a cognitive science degree from UC Berkeley, he pairs systems thinking with a user-focused approach to developer workflows. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic architect who finds joy in evolving messy legacy stacks into maintainable platforms.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Cognitive Science, Bachelor's degree Cognitive Science at University of California, Berkeley