Valerie Coffman
Staff Software Engineer at Neynar
Reno, Nevada, United States
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Top SchoolValerie Coffman is a Staff Software Engineer and seasoned technology leader with 13 years of experience building data-driven products, AI systems, and scalable architectures across startups and marketplaces. She co-founded and led Swayable as CTO, built Xometry’s quoting and ML-driven pricing systems that supported a NASDAQ-listed business, and now focuses on AI, algorithms, and search infrastructure for the Farcaster protocol. Trained as a physicist with a PhD from Cornell and entrepreneurial training from Johns Hopkins, she blends rigorous research instincts with product-focused engineering. Valerie has a track record of turning complex inference problems into production-ready systems—from recipe NLP at Feastie to patented marketplace pricing—and balances deep technical craft with team-building and strategy. Based in Reno, NV, she’s also a mom who “loves code,” bringing both practical grit and curiosity to early-stage technology challenges.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Physics, B.S. Physics at Johns Hopkins UniversityM.S.PhD Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, M.S.PhD Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics at Cornell UniversityCertificate Technology Entrepreneurship, Certificate Technology Entrepreneurship at The Johns Hopkins University - Carey Business School
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Github Skills (82)
npm-package10
pylint10
3d-rendering10
python-extension10
intellisense10
rendering9
pov-ray9
rest9
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python9
photo9
flask9
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ogeagla/hackmeat
Dec 2012 - Dec 2012
Contributions:57 commits in 1 day
xometry/numpy-stl
Feb 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 22 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
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