Josh Pfeffer
Lead Software Engineer at Zoom
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Pfeffer is a Lead Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable, secure backend systems and full-stack features, currently driving architecture and platform work at Zoom from New York. He specializes in Node.js and TypeScript and has delivered observable, maintainable services using Kafka and GraphQL while improving platform security, test reliability, and developer tooling. Josh is customer-obsessed and pragmatic about clean abstractions and performance, owning the full lifecycle from design to deploy and mentoring teams to increase velocity. His career spans major collaboration platforms (Zoom, Webex, Cisco) and a steady progression from intern to technical lead, reflecting deep operational experience in large-scale, real-time systems. Notably, he pairs hands-on engineering with platform-level thinking, focusing on solutions that scale both technically and organizationally.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Vista del Lago High School
English, SpanishGithub contributions (5)
CPE307/survey
Oct 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:13 commits, 13 pushes in 2 months
jmpfeffe/sentence-generator
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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