Dean Galvin
Staff Software Engineer at Coinbase
New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolDean Galvin is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building reliable web and infrastructure systems, currently driving engineering at Coinbase from his New Jersey base. He specializes in Ruby on Rails web development and has a strong background in infrastructure and SSO/authentication, having led platform and security-focused efforts at Stitch Fix and Clearlogin. Dean combines a TDD mindset and hands-on QA/test-automation experience—evidenced by contributions improving RSpec coverage for the popular rack-throttle rate-limiting middleware—with leadership roles guiding teams through HIPAA and enterprise-grade projects. A lifelong programmer who started with QBasic, he holds a BS in Computer Science and brings a practical, curious approach to solving production-scale reliability and authentication challenges.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree Information Technology (Game Development), Associate's degree Information Technology (Game Development) at County College of MorrisBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Rowan University
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Github Skills (13)
testing10
rspec10
rack10
ruby10
rubygems7
heroku6
autocomplete6
socket-io6
ssl6
nodejs6
forms6
jquery6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
dryruby/rack-throttle
Nov 2015 - Aug 2019
Rack middleware for rate-limiting incoming HTTP requests.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:27 commits, 21 PRs, 18 pushes in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Dean primarily contributed to the testing aspect of the `rack-throttle` library. They updated existing RSpec tests to use the `expect` syntax, added new tests for different time intervals (seconds, minutes, hours, days), and validated edge cases within the rate limiting logic. The changes focus on improving test coverage and ensuring the reliability of the rate-limiting middleware. These commits confirm the functionality of various rate-limiting strategies.
http-requestssinatrarack-middlewareincomingrack
FreekingDean/insteon-hub
Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:61 commits, 8 PRs, 47 pushes in 11 months
pythonpython-3python3replicatedinsteon
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