Roger Goldfinger
Web Frontend Architect at Etsy
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolRoger Goldfinger is a Web Frontend Architect based in Portland, Oregon with 11 years of experience building and modernizing large-scale web applications. He combines full-stack engineering chops with strategic leadership—leading migrations from legacy stacks to Next.js and Kubernetes, and driving platform initiatives that cut costs and developer downtime dramatically. At Quizlet he led cross-team modernization efforts, authored deployment and observability foundations, and designed authentication and service patterns used org-wide. He’s equally comfortable debugging subtle production issues as he is architecting large migrations that improved SEO and signup rates. A former attorney turned engineer, he brings uncommon clarity in stakeholder alignment and risk management when coordinating complex technical programs. Now at Etsy, he focuses on scalable front-end architecture and developer experience while still diving deep into new technologies across the stack.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA History Film, BA History Film at University of WashingtonHack ReactorDoctor of Law (J.D.), Doctor of Law (J.D.) at Columbia Law School
javascript
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Github Skills (70)
finance10
react10
laravel9
gatsby9
apollographql9
expressjs9
apollo-client9
caching9
rollbar9
graphql-client9
graphql9
fastest9
compiler8
cli8
graphql-query8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rgoldfinger/qrredirect
Nov 2017 - Feb 2022
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
rgoldfinger/should_i_run_js
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:37 commits in 3 days
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