Ethan Schlenker
Senior Engineering Manager, Web Platform
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolEthan Schlenker is a veteran engineering leader based in San Francisco with 16+ years of experience building high-performance web teams and shipping isomorphic JavaScript products. He blends deep hands-on engineering (notably contributing to open-source projects like Rendr for server/client Backbone apps) with a human-centered management style that prioritizes trust, recognition, and career growth. Ethan has led large rewrites and platform efforts at companies including Twitter and Trulia, and more recently focused on coaching and mentoring engineering managers to build inclusive, high-performing cultures. Known for scaling teams while preserving craft—test-driven practices and rapid iteration—he pairs technical judgment with empathy to help teams do their best work.
16 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Economics, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Economics at Rutgers University
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Github Skills (12)
regular-expression10
url-routing10
javascript10
backbone10
backbonejs10
front-end-development9
nodejs8
testing8
expressjs7
rspec6
haml6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
rendrjs/rendr
Oct 2013 - Jul 2015
Render your Backbone.js apps on the client and the server, using Node.js.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 4 PRs, 32 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Ethan primarily contributed to the frontend and routing aspects of the Rendrjs project, as evidenced by the changes to `client/router.js`, and example application configurations. They implemented regular expression-based route definitions, modified how Backbone routes are handled, and allowed overriding the default `app_view`. Additionally, the user worked on fixing route redirection issues and incorporating custom headers within route definitions. The user also introduced tests for regex routes in the server-side router.
renderbackbonenode-jsjavascriptexpress
trulia/webpagetest-charts-ui
Mar 2015 - Sep 2021
A UI of charts built on top of webpagetest-charts-api
Contributions:24 commits, 17 PRs, 8 pushes in 6 years 7 months
chartsreactapicharton-top
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