Quinlan Pfiffer

github.com/qpfiffer

qpfiffer@gmail.com

+1(503) 985-6583

Full Stack Web Developer

I'm a web-focused engineer with ten+ years of experience writing production-quality code for all sorts of applications and places. I'm most at home in a terminal, implementing tests and business logic in a backend environment, though I am more than comfortable building reactive frontends as well.

Skills

Notable Personal Projects

All of these projects are open source and available on my GitHub profile. There are a lot more things I've worked on, but these have been personal favorites.

OlegDB

  • Programming Languages: C, Golang, Erlang
  • Full end-to-end datastore/hash-table implementation
  • Managed a small international team of open source developers
  • Managed social media and community outreach efforts
  • Full continuous integration, tested codebase
  • Started as a joke but turned into a Real Thing

Simple Sparsehash

  • Programming Languages: C
  • Full re-implementation of Google's SparseHash hashing library as a teaching/learning exercise

38-Moths

  • Programming Languages: C, Python
  • Lightweight, unopinionated web framework
  • Custom templating language
  • Custom HTTP server
  • C/Python FFI
  • Kinda fast

Lair

  • Programming Languages: C
  • Programming language and interpreter implemented from scratch
  • Full parser/lexer
  • Full test suite

Merveilles IO

  • Programming Languages: Python
  • Flask based link aggregation framework hooked up to IRC
  • Uses Kyoto Cabinet as the data backend
  • Even makes thumbnails of images!

Metaforcefeed

  • Programming Languages: Python
  • Flask based CRUD-style application for managing meetups and ideas

Work Experience

PacketFabric - Cloud Router Team Lead/Senior Backend Engineer

March 2020 - March 2022

  • Technologies: Async Python3, Sanic, PostgreSQL, Lots of networking hardware experience
  • Team Lead for the creation and management of the Cloud Router (Layer 3 services) project
  • Responsible for translating networking requirements into a usable API gateway
  • Helped port old PHP backend to new Python3 stack
  • Core contributor to bespoke backend suite

LiftAI - Senior Backend Web Developer/Embedded Engineer

March 2019 - March 2020

  • Technologies: Python3, Django, AWS (Elastic Beanstalk), PostgreSQL, RaspberryPI, ffmpeg
  • Built out server-side backend to smart elevator IoT project.
  • Contributed to on-device Python microservices
  • Handled automated media creation with ffmpeg

Van Robotics - Full stack Web Developer/Embedded Engineer

May 2019 - March 2020

  • Technologies: Python2/3, Django, AWS, PostgreSQL, RaspberryPI, OpenCV, WebSockets, React
  • Jack of all trades for many different projects: Frontend portal, robot internals, cloud backend, face detection

Nike Valiant Labs - Senior Backend Web Developer

December 2016 - May 2018

  • Technologies: Python, Django, GraphQL, node.js, AWS, PostgreSQL, Postgraphile, Stripe, Checkr
  • Implemented backend for a market-to-market fitness application first with Django, then later with node.js.
  • Extensive AWS experience - Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, RDS, EC2, etc.
  • PostgreSQL, deployment, querying, data modeling, optimization
  • Relied heavily on GraphQL for backend, extended both with Python and node.js

Survant James - Full stack Web Developer

October 2014 - July 2016

Aquameta - Full stack Web Developer

May 2012 - August 2014

Intel - Junior Software Dev

Summer 2011