Jeffrey Russom
Senior Full Stack Software Engineer at Apple
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeffrey Russom is a Senior Full Stack Engineer with 11+ years building scalable web and AI-integrated systems, currently focused on streaming conversation platforms and GraphQL architectures. He has driven architecture and cross-team strategy at Indeed—designing a GraphQL conversation API, introducing low-latency streaming with Redis Pub/Sub and Apollo Federation, and championing micro-frontend patterns to reduce UI duplication. His background spans reliability, observability, and developer experience improvements at Vrbo and HomeAway, where he led initiatives like UX-based alerting, structured logging, and monorepo consolidation. Trained as a physicist (MS, MIT; BS in Physics & Math, Rice), he brings a methodical, experiment-driven approach to engineering problems and mentors senior engineers while aligning platform decisions with product outcomes. An often-overlooked strength is his ability to translate research-style rigor into practical production runbooks and tooling that scale across large organizations.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Physics, Master of Science (MS) Physics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBS; BA Physics; Mathematics, BS; BA Physics; Mathematics at Rice University
English
Github Skills (51)
caching10
javascript10
typescript10
apollo-client10
vue10
apollographql10
graphql10
graphql-client10
react10
angular10
testing9
amplify9
amazon-cognito9
storage9
aws-amplify9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
qswitcher/cloudformation_examples
Jul 2018 - Jun 2021
A collection of cloudformation template examples
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 2 years 10 months
serverlesscloudterraformawscloudformation-template
qswitcher/sicp
Sep 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:62 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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