Devin Foley
Technical Advisory Board Member at Surface Ventures
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDevin Foley is a seasoned software engineer and engineering leader in San Francisco with 14 years of experience building and scaling native and web clients. At Figma he combines low-level macOS and systems expertise with modern stacks—Rust, TypeScript, React, and Electron—to make design and visual communication more accessible and collaborative. Previously he led Native Client Engineering at Slack, scaling desktop and mobile teams to support millions of users and shipping features like Threads, Enterprise Grid, and video. He was an early engineering leader at IFTTT and CTO at startups, and now advises and angel-invests through Adventures in Time Travel with a focus on SaaS, developer platforms, and messaging/collaboration. He responds selectively to founders raising seed rounds or candidates who want to work at Figma, and for a quirky footnote once sat next to Jack Dorsey at Chipotle.
14 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Maryland Global CampusUniversity of California San DiegoMt. San Jacinto College
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Github Skills (105)
uipageviewcontroller10
windows10
uiview10
keyframe10
c-plus-plus10
podfile10
javascript10
openlibrary10
perfect10
animation10
pickerview10
html10
js10
swift10
shipit10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
devinfoley/devinfoley.github.com
Aug 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:3 pushes in 9 years 9 months
devinfoley/electron
Oct 2020 - Aug 2022
:electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
Contributions:7 pushes, 141 branches in 1 year 10 months
jswindowselectronelectronjscss
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