Jeffrey Faer
Senior Distinguished Engineer at Capital One
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJeffrey Faer is a Senior Software Engineer based in Denver with 12 years of experience building scalable, reliable distributed systems that handle billions of daily requests. A backend generalist at Google, he favors infrastructure work and focuses on improving developer productivity to act as a force multiplier across teams. Jeffrey blends deep systems design with practical implementation, delivering resilient services and tooling that streamline developer workflows. His long-running involvement in internal "20% projects" signals a curiosity for experimentation and continuous improvement beyond core responsibilities.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Mathematics at University of Maryland
Github Skills (180)
compile-time10
testing10
bash10
guice10
junit10
home-assistant10
encryption10
cobra10
static-analysis10
multiple-machines10
language-agnostic10
stream10
mocks10
golang10
developer-tools10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
JeffFaer/junit5-extensions
Mar 2017 - Dec 2019
Personal repository for JUnit 5 extensions
Contributions:6 releases, 83 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 9 months
junitjavajunit5testingtesting-tools
google/keep-sorted
Mar 2023 - Apr 2026
keep-sorted is a language-agnostic formatter that sorts lines between two markers in a larger file.
Contributions:11 releases, 52 reviews, 118 PRs in 3 years 1 month
developer-toolsformatterlanguage-agnostic
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