Pooya Jaferian
Principal Software Engineer at Twilio
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolPooya Jaferian is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently shaping Twilio Segment’s web integrations, libraries, and SDKs from Vancouver. He blends hands-on full‑stack development with engineering leadership, having led libraries and SDK teams at Segment and managed frontend modernization efforts at companies like Parsable and Atrium. Pooya has deep expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystems—contributing performance and reliability improvements to Segment’s analytics.js and the action-destinations framework used for streaming destinations. He’s comfortable across the stack, from SDK delivery infrastructure and build pipelines to API integrations and client-side performance tuning. Beyond product work, he has taught at the graduate level and driven measurable engineering improvements such as systematic bug backlog reduction and test coverage increases. His profile reflects both academic rigor (PhD-level study) and practical impact on widely used open-source and production tooling.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Amirkabir University of TechnologyPhD Computer Engineering, PhD Computer Engineering at The University of British Columbia
English
Github Skills (17)
webbrowser10
javascript10
jes10
typescript10
browser10
analytics10
sdk10
jestjs10
performance-optimization10
typescript-types10
jtest10
typescripts10
web-development10
testing9
apim9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
segmentio/analytics-next
Sep 2020 - Dec 2022
Segment Analytics.js 2.0
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 177 reviews, 96 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Pooya primarily contributed to the Segment Analytics for JavaScript library by implementing features and improving performance. They added metrics for extension load times, refactored the load method and adjusted tests. Furthermore, they incorporated lighthouse performance testing and updated build processes to improve the library's efficiency. Finally, they added public methods and improved the handling of cookie options.
analyticsjavascriptsdksegment-analyticssegment
segmentio/action-destinations
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
Action Destinations are the new way to build streaming destinations on Segment.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:202 reviews, 33 commits, 91 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Pooya primarily focused on enhancing the "Friendbuy" browser destination within the "action-destinations" repository. They implemented and modified actions for tracking customer behavior, specifically purchases, by adding and modifying related code and tests. The contributions included defining input fields, integrating with the Friendbuy API, and ensuring accurate data capture for tracking customer interactions. Additionally, the user worked on various other destinations.
destinationsstreamingsegment
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