Jeffrey Smith
Principal Software Development Engineer at CarGurus
Duxbury, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJeffrey Smith is a Principal Software Development Engineer with 12 years of experience designing and shipping high-performance, SEO-friendly web applications. He specializes in building universal React apps and scalable JavaScript backends using Node.js, MongoDB, and real-time technologies like Socket.io, informed by a wide background across web stacks and infrastructure (AWS, NGINX, Express). At CarGurus and previously GasBuddy and Placester, he has driven architectural decisions that balance client and server rendering for speed and discoverability. Jeffrey’s pragmatic full-stack fluency is grounded in hands-on ops experience (Vagrant, Puppet, IIS) and a history of moving between legacy and modern paradigms, which helps him modernize systems without disrupting delivery. Based in Duxbury, MA, he focuses on maintainability and measurable performance wins that improve both developer velocity and user-facing SEO.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Information Technology, Bachelor of Science, Information Technology at Bryant University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (24)
geocoder9
express-winston8
nodejs-library7
backbone6
nodejs6
geocoding6
winston5
rating5
api5
javascript5
ajax5
react-component4
react4
http-client3
api-server3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
monetaur/hooks
Jan 2020 - Nov 2023
A collection of useful React hooks
Contributions:6 releases, 6 PRs, 18 pushes in 3 years 10 months
react-hooksreacthookstypescript
gas-buddy/babel-preset-gasbuddy
Dec 2018 - Oct 2022
GasBuddy opinions about the best set of Babel things to use
Contributions:9 PRs, 20 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 11 months
babelopinions
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