Quinn Slack
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarQuinn Slack is the CEO and co‑founder of Sourcegraph in San Francisco, bringing 17 years of engineering and founder experience to building universal code search and code AI. He pairs company leadership with hands‑on engineering across the stack, especially in Go and developer tooling. Quinn is an active open‑source contributor—work includes implementing git blame support in git2go, enhancements to Go language server tooling, and static AngularJS rendering in WebLoop for SEO—showing deep fluency in VCS, LSPs, and web rendering. A Stanford CS graduate, former Palantir forward‑deployed engineer and Blend Labs co‑founder, he also serves on the board of Hack Club, reflecting a commitment to growing the next generation of developers.
17 years of coding experience
Github Skills (90)
serializable10
libgit210
testing10
http10
language-server-protocol10
bignum10
libgit2sharp10
deserialization10
encoding10
tern10
backend10
object-cache10
javascript10
go-testing10
ref10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
sourcegraph/sourcegraph-public-snapshot
Sep 2015 - Jan 2023
Code AI platform with Code Search & Cody
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:234 reviews, 8134 commits, 2170 PRs in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Quinn's contributions focused on enhancing language detection by utilizing a separate Redis cache, which involved modifications to backend code, specifically in the cmd/frontend/backend/repos.go file. They also cleaned up startup logs in the docker run quickstart command and improved the management console's display. Furthermore, the user enabled enhanced language detection by default and fixed an issue in campaign URL.
sourcegraphcode-generationrepo-type-maindeveloper-toolslsif-enabled
sourcegraph/webloop
Oct 2013 - Mar 2018
WebLoop: Scriptable, headless WebKit with a Go API. Like PhantomJS, but for Go.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:35 commits, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Quinn primarily contributed to the `webloop` project, focusing on enhancing its functionality and providing a static HTML rendering capability. They implemented features like JavaScript evaluation and introduced a `StaticRenderer` to generate static pages from dynamic AngularJS applications. Additionally, the user added an example showcasing AngularJS static SEO and incorporated options to configure the static rendering behavior. These changes demonstrate the user's involvement in expanding the project's capabilities and improving its usability.
golangapiscriptablephantomjsgo-api
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