Jeremy Shefer
Principal Software Engineer at Avant
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeremy Shefer is a Principal Software Engineer based in Chicago with 11 years of experience building full-stack systems that bring legacy and acquired codebases into reliable, production-ready services. He specializes in payments, migrations, and performance tuning—having led efforts to internalize payments infrastructure, fix memory leaks, and stabilize multi-service clusters. Jeremy combines pragmatic engineering with product awareness, delivering revenue-impacting algorithm improvements and throughput optimizations across Scala, TypeScript, Node.js, and C# stacks. He has a track record of cost-saving platform work (storage and compute reductions) and translating business requirements into audit-ready solutions for regulated workflows. A hands-on mentor and documenter, he routinely writes the team playbooks and runbooks that reduce incident response times and preserve institutional knowledge. Beyond code, he’s driven by a lifelong interest in engineering lineage, channeling his grandfather’s hydraulic ingenuity into elegant digital systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development, Web Development at General AssemblyBS Accounting, BS Accounting at DePaul UniversityAlgorithms and Data Structures, Algorithms and Data Structures at Outco Inc.
English, Russian, Hebrew
Github Skills (6)
jetbrains4
javascript3
polyglot2
material-design2
dom1
fixture1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
SHEFFcode/GeeksForGeeks
Sep 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:272 commits, 261 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
SHEFFcode/AlGoCruncher
Jan 2018 - Feb 2023
Polyglot Algo Repo
Contributions:682 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
javascriptpolyglotalgo
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