Simon Coffin
GraphQL Infrastructure Engineer at Gusto
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolSimon Coffin is a GraphQL Infrastructure Engineer based in San Jose with four years of full‑stack experience building reliable APIs, performant frontends, and production tooling across Node.js and Python. He blends a strong user-centric design sensibility—shaped by a background in film and media—with deep expertise in GraphQL, TypeScript, React, and testing automation to deliver intuitive, accessible products that "just work." At Amplitude and Medallia he led initiatives that measurably improved onboarding, conversion, and developer velocity, from persona-driven algorithms to centralized routing and cache synchronization strategies. Now focused on GraphQL infrastructure at Gusto, he prioritizes enforceable contracts and flexible architectures that accelerate iteration without sacrificing reliability. A self-taught, curious engineer, he brings uncommon attention to media formats and quality from his film career, which informs his pragmatic approach to product and platform decisions.
4 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bellarmine College PreparatoryBachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Media Arts - Digitial Filmmaking, Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Media Arts - Digitial Filmmaking at University of Montana
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Github Skills (12)
amplitude10
middleware8
redux8
fetch8
react7
apollo6
apollo-federation5
ruby5
graphql5
apollographql4
state-management4
federation3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
simoncoffin/dotfiles
May 2024 - Jul 2024
Contributions:1 push in 2 months
simoncoffin/empower-coding-challenge-simon
Jul 2023 - Jul 2023
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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