Beau Gunderson
Chief Engineering Officer at Canvas Medical
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolBeau Gunderson is a seasoned software leader and Chief Engineering Officer with 17 years of experience building human-centered systems, currently guiding Canvas Medical through engineering, security, and regulatory challenges. He describes himself as a "software gardener"—a pragmatic generalist who nurtures teams and codebases across frontend, backend, QA, and infrastructure. Beau blends hands-on engineering (TypeScript, Go, Python) with product-minded architecture, having risen from principal architect to CTO and now COO-level engineering leadership. An active open-source contributor, he has improved testing and documentation in notable projects like Mapnik and async and added UX and auth polish to a P2P web chat. His background spans startups, healthcare EMR, and consulting, plus quirky side projects in net art, games, and amateur radio that keep his curiosity sharp. Known for shipping reliable systems under constraints, he pairs technical breadth with an emphasis on quality, privacy, and practical tooling.
17 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Self-taught
English, Spanish, hatian kreyol
Stackoverflow
11,379reputation
5.7mreached
54answers
6questions
html
top-1%
google-visualization
top-5%
webpack
top-5%
xmlhttprequest
top-1%
javascript
top-1%
python
top-5%
Github Skills (33)
unit-testing10
cors10
javascript10
xmlhttprequest10
python10
electron10
async10
testing10
ui-design10
callback10
stream10
mochajs10
uid10
front-end-development10
cartography10
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
moose-team/friends
Apr 2015 - Feb 2016
:tv: P2P chat powered by the web.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 14 PRs, 16 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Beau primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and authentication flow within the "friends" repository, which is a P2P chat application. Their contributions include adding a UI for GitHub authentication, developing a `git-help.html` window to guide users through the authentication process. They also implemented autocompletion features within the chat composer, improving the overall user experience.
reactp2pjavascriptchatwebrtc
caolan/async
Oct 2014 - May 2015
Async utilities for node and the browser
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:36 commits, 5 PRs, 8 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Beau primarily contributed to improving the test suite of the `async` library. Their work involved fixing existing tests, ensuring compatibility with different JavaScript environments, and modifying test assertions. The user focused on identifying and removing errant debugger statements within the test files. They also addressed issues and incorporated features related to the `queue` functionality.
callbacksbrowserjavascriptnodejsasync
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.