Summary
Gabe Finch is a Senior Software Engineer and team lead in Portland with 11 years of experience building and modernizing web platforms and developer workflows. He specializes in front-end architecture (TypeScript, React, Redux) and pragmatic migrations from legacy code to maintainable, testable systems, while also owning infrastructure and CI/CD on AWS and Docker. At Kroger he leads a cross-functional squad, drives standards adoption, and championed a company-wide shift from WebdriverIO to Playwright. His background in bioinformatics and research-science engineering gives him a knack for designing data-conscious APIs and precise instrumentation for analytics and observability. Colleagues describe him as a hands-on mentor who elevates junior engineers and prefers clean, readable solutions—he’s also famously not a fan of neckties.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS with Honors, Molecular Biology, Bachelor of Science - BS with Honors, Molecular Biology at University of Oregon
Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics at Oregon Health & Science University
Software Development, Software Development at Epicodus