Oliver Griffiths
Software Engineer at Tumblr
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOliver Griffiths is a Brooklyn-based software engineer with over a decade of experience designing scalable, high-performance backend systems for both startups and enterprise teams. Currently at Tumblr, he blends hands-on engineering with systems architecture to improve latency, reliability, and team delivery, and has led mobile and web engineering efforts in prior leadership roles. He is a pragmatic refactorer comfortable modernizing monoliths or building cloud-native microservices, with a track record of shipping mission-critical applications for global brands. An active open-source contributor, Oliver has made notable contributions to widely used tooling like ember-cli and Broccoli—improving build watchers, ES6 module support, and CLI robustness—which underscores his focus on developer experience and build performance. Collected experience in both product and infrastructure gives him a strategic lens for aligning technical decisions with business impact.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Internet Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Internet Engineering at University of Exeter
Github Skills (15)
cli10
command-line-interface10
ember-cli10
javascript10
nodejs10
broccoli10
chai10
ember10
build-automation10
command-line10
testing10
typescripts8
typescript8
es6-modules8
typescript-types8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
broccolijs/broccoli
Jan 2018 - May 2019
Browser compilation library – an asset pipeline for applications that run in the browser
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 41 commits, 32 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Oliver primarily focused on improving the command-line interface (CLI) of the Broccoli build tool. Their contributions included adding an overwrite option, incorporating error handling for output directory management, and integrating environment configuration. They also implemented and tested improvements to the CLI including tests to ensure correct functionality. Additionally, the user added ES6 module support to the build process and implemented heimdall support to improve performance monitoring.
compilationbrowserpipelinejavascriptasset
ember-cli/ember-cli
Jul 2018 - May 2019
The Ember.js command line utility.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 6 PRs, 57 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Oliver primarily worked on the `ember-cli/ember-cli` repository, making changes related to the build process and watcher functionality. They refactored code to use a Broccoli watcher and made adjustments to accommodate Broccoli 2.0. The user also addressed lint errors and fixed issues to improve the build process by implementing fallback mechanisms.
ember-clijavascriptcommand-line-utilityemberember-js
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