Geoffrey Plitt
Staff Software Engineer at Fieldguide
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolGeoffrey Plitt is a Staff Platform Engineer in Los Angeles with over 15 years of production engineering experience and a 21-year track record in high-scale cloud web systems. A former Googler and long-time NodeJS backend specialist, he focuses on APIs, algorithms, and squeezing maximum accuracy and speed out of systems while minimizing cost and complexity. He’s led engineering teams and startups—from Director roles at Maker Studios to co-founding Laffster—and has deep hands-on expertise in observability, queueing (BullMQ), Redis-based patterns, and JavaScript concurrency fixes. Comfortable across NodeJS, Go, and Python, Geoffrey blends product-minded leadership with algorithmic problem solving and a habit of applying profiling-first approaches to tame performance bottlenecks. An improv-trained communicator, he brings an unusual mix of technical rigor and creative collaboration to platform engineering challenges.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Improv, Improv at iOImprovisor Improv, Improvisor Improv at Second CityViewpointBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (200)
onesignal10
spi10
automation10
sinon10
camera10
oracle-db10
nodejs10
unit-testing10
stub10
react-native-module10
account-kit10
image-picker10
node-gyp10
gyp10
deep-linking10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
GeoffreyPlitt/react_native_minimal
Sep 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:36 commits, 1 PR, 36 pushes in 6 months
react-nativereactinit
GeoffreyPlitt/vagrant-audio
May 2013 - Mar 2019
A minimal Vagrantfile that makes sound work on Mac (host) and Ubuntu/Precise (guest).
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 5 years 10 months
ubuntuvagrantfile
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