Jeffrey Dettmann
Software Engineer at Nava
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolJeffrey Dettmann is a versatile software engineer with 15 years of experience building web and backend systems across startups, enterprise products, and government-focused teams. He transitioned from a PhD in History into software, bringing a humanities-informed empathy for stakeholder trade-offs and clear communication to technical decision-making. His hands-on toolkit spans Java, Ruby on Rails, Flex/ActionScript, MongoDB/CouchDB, and occasional projects in Python, Node.js, and ColdFusion, reflecting a comfort moving across the full stack. At Rosetta Stone he led development and metrics work for language-learning products; more recently he has delivered payment- and configuration-focused refactors at Toptal and NexHealth and now contributes to civic-focused projects at Nava. Colleagues rely on him for balancing technical trade-offs, mentoring, and translating complex requirements into pragmatic, maintainable solutions.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, History, PhD, History at The University of Texas at AustinBA, Geography, BA, Geography at University of Chicago
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Github Skills (14)
prediction10
espn9
modeling9
hypothesis-testing9
econometrics9
statsmodels9
regression-models9
forecasting9
statistics9
data-analysis8
generalized-linear-models8
python8
data-science7
pdf2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
porcpine1967/liqui-aoe
Jan 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:5 releases, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
porcpine1967/candidate_issues
Jun 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:154 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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