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.
18 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Physics Physics Astronomy, Physics Physics Astronomy at UC Santa Barbara
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Github Skills (39)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
paploo/poro
Aug 2010 - Apr 2011
Contributions:109 commits in 7 months
paploo/KerbalLaunch
Nov 2012 - Feb 2020
Contributions:53 commits, 2 pushes in 7 years 4 months
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