Joseph Leiferman is a purpose-driven software engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable, user-focused systems across GovTech, healthcare, and game development. He has led platform migrations and integration efforts at PayIt, improving ingestion performance by 5x, implementing blue/green deployments, and expanding integrations to meet regional data protection needs. At Cerner he moved critical healthcare infrastructure to AWS, modernized ETL pipelines, and introduced frontend accessibility and React components into legacy Rails apps. Now at Common Sense AI he’s modernizing local government workflows with AI-powered solutions that replace brittle legacy processes. Comfortable switching between hands-on engineering and team leadership, he combines deep operational experience with a knack for pragmatic automation and observability. Based in Los Angeles and holding an MS in Computer Science, he’s motivated by solving complex problems that measurably improve people’s lives.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Iowa
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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Joseph Leiferman - Software Engineer at Common Sense AI