Jeffrey Reinecke
Staff Engineer at Magnify
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJeffrey Reinecke is a Staff Engineer in Seattle with 17 years of experience building resilient, long-lived backend systems and modernizing legacy platforms into service-oriented architectures. He combines deep hands-on skills across Kotlin, Scala, PostgreSQL, and cloud deployments with a proven record of shipping high-impact optimizations—once achieving a 10x speedup by rearchitecting a service and changing its data store. Jeffrey has led and grown small engineering teams, founded backend organizations, and saved millions by internalizing critical data tooling while mentoring through pair programming and code reviews. His background in physics and amateur astronomy informs a methodical, measurement-driven approach to complex system design and data integrity. Comfortable translating product requirements into pragmatic architecture, he’s known for introducing type-safe patterns and database constraints to protect financial data. Outside work he balances engineering rigor with wide-ranging curiosity—from video games to stargazing—which fuels his continuous learning and teaching.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Physics Physics Astronomy, Physics Physics Astronomy at UC Santa Barbara
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (47)
universe10
sky10
ios-application10
slide9
astronomy9
stellarium9
telescope9
science9
rule9
cpp8
rack8
sinatra8
linux8
opengl8
unix8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
paploo/goi
Aug 2022 - Feb 2025
My personal project to manage my 日本語 flashcards in Anki
Contributions:7 reviews, 42 PRs, 285 pushes in 2 years 6 months
flashcardsanki
paploo/SlideRuleCoach
Mar 2011 - Apr 2022
iOS application to test your slide rule skills.
Contributions:130 commits, 2 PRs, 31 pushes in 11 years 2 months
ruleslideswiftiosios-application
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