Stephane Rufer
Staff Software Engineer at Arista Networks
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephane Rufer is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building full-stack web and mobile experiences, currently driving platform and product work at Arista Networks from Los Angeles. He has deep hands-on expertise in mobile web architecture—designing Python APIs, deployment pipelines, and React/Angular frontends—previously leading the mobile web effort at GoodRx and contributing to production-grade systems at ZEFR and Arista. Stephane blends engineering leadership with a strong foundation in computer science and international management, holding a magna cum laude CS degree from the University of Zurich and a BSc in Business Administration. He’s an active back-end contributor to prominent open-source tooling (notably improving gRPC handling in the graphql-mesh ecosystem), reflecting his aptitude for integrating diverse APIs and improving interoperability. Known for initiative in fast-paced environments, he pairs pragmatic system design with operational ownership across DevOps, API, and front-end domains.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Information Systems Computer Science Economics Business Finance, Computer Science Information Systems Computer Science Economics Business Finance at University of ZurichManagement Management Economics Marketing, Management Management Economics Marketing at ESG ParisIMS Computer Science, IMS Computer Science at Kantonsschule BüelrainInternational Management Management Economics Business Administration, International Management Management Economics Business Administration at ZHAW
English, German, French
Github Skills (15)
graphql10
typescript10
nodejs10
typescripts10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
typescript-types10
protobuffer10
grpc10
protobuf10
api-design9
api9
openapi8
swagger7
rest-api7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ardatan/graphql-mesh
Apr 2020 - Oct 2020
🕸️ GraphQL Federation Framework for any API services such as REST, OpenAPI, Swagger, SOAP, gRPC and more...
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 10 PRs, 6 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Stephane primarily contributed to the gRPC handler within the GraphQL Mesh framework. Their work focused on fixing issues related to gRPC enum generation, specifically addressing how enums were handled as inputs. They also improved the gRPC integration by adding options to specify proto include paths and improving the method inference logic. Furthermore, the user added features for authentication and metadata configuration for gRPC requests.
querymeshgrpcsoapanywhere
rufman/dots
Jan 2015 - Jun 2020
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
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