Julian Napolitan
Senior Engineering Manager at Zumper
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJulian Napolitan is a Senior Engineering Manager in Oakland with a decade of experience building full-stack web products and leading teams at consumer-focused startups like Zumper. He blends hands-on expertise in JavaScript, Node.js, React, Ruby on Rails, and relational databases with a strong emphasis on customer empathy and user experience, having moved from frontend engineer to engineering leadership within the same company. His background in instructional design and educational technology informs a people-centered approach to mentorship, onboarding, and cross-functional collaboration. Comfortable shipping across the stack and the SDLC, he pairs TDD and OOP discipline with pragmatic AWS-backed deployments. Known for translating complex user needs into polished product experiences, he brings both design-minded thinking and operational rigor to scaling teams and systems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Media Communication & Technology, Bachelor of Science (BS), Media Communication & Technology at East Stroudsburg University of PennsylvaniaSan Diego State University
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Github Skills (24)
vector6
rake6
ruby-on-rails6
tdd6
yaml6
rspec6
rspec-rails6
ruby6
tiles6
javascript6
mysql6
maps5
3d5
geojson5
browser5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jnapolitan/Towncloud
Dec 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:97 commits, 81 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
jnapolitan/Twitter-Data-Vis
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:72 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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