Tristan Goffman
Senior Software Engineer at Human Interest
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTristan Goffman is a senior full-stack engineer based in San Francisco with 15 years of software experience and a decade focused on backend systems and product-facing front ends. Currently at Human Interest, he brings deep hands-on experience building scalable web applications and front-end infrastructure, having previously sped up testing suites 4x and led remote teams at AltSchool. Tristan’s background spans Express.js servers, single-page app frameworks, automated testing, and integrations from WordPress plugins to Java-based media tooling, reflecting comfort across languages and stacks. He combines pragmatic engineering with product sensibility—often acting as the technical product manager for front-end initiatives—and has a track record of turning prototypes into maintainable production systems. Notably, he has repeatedly improved developer velocity and user experience through performance-focused tooling and architecture decisions.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
The University of British Columbia
English, German, French
Github Skills (80)
flip9
recompose9
launchdarkly9
region8
redux8
viewport8
typescript8
feature-flags7
ember-addon7
react7
testing6
javascript6
factories6
modeling6
lerna6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
trisrael/mindbody
May 2011 - Dec 2011
Contributions:36 commits in 7 months
AltSchool/ember-segmentio
Sep 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 20 pushes, 6 branches in 6 months
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