JJ Weber is a software engineer and cofounder with 13 years of experience building backend systems for startups in the Bay Area, currently leading engineering at Decisionly out of Oakland. He spent seven years at Chargehound and earlier roles at Beacon and Livefyre, honing production-grade skills in data storage, streaming, and CLI tooling. An active open-source contributor, JJ has deep hands-on experience with the dat peer-to-peer project, adding core storage features like row-count management and improving write-stream behavior. With a background in philosophy from Kalamazoo College, he brings a thoughtful, systems-oriented approach to engineering tradeoffs and product decisions.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Philosophy, Bachelor's Degree, Philosophy at Kalamazoo College
:floppy_disk: peer-to-peer sharing & live syncronization of files via command line
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:6 commits in 19 days
Contributions summary:JJ primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `dat` project, specifically focusing on the underlying data storage and access mechanisms. Their commits added features like `getRowCount` and implemented row count management within the storage layer. The user also improved the write stream functionality by integrating the standard put method. Furthermore, they integrated progress information within the command line interface.
Contributions:79 commits, 24 PRs, 67 pushes in 5 years 6 months
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JJ Weber - Software Engineer, Cofounder at Decisionly