Gabriel Berke-williams
Senior Software Engineer at August Health
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolGabriel Berke-williams is a Senior Software Engineer with 17 years of experience helping teams ship reliable, maintainable web applications and developer tooling from San Francisco. He blends hands-on full-stack work (Rails, JavaScript/React, TypeScript) with engineering management experience, having led multiple teams and driven improvements in code quality and developer experience. At Grammarly he worked on a browser extension used by tens of millions and prototyped an internal glossary that became an enterprise product, and at thoughtbot he contributed widely to open source tooling like griddler and suspenders. Gabriel is known as a strong technical communicator and mentor—he’s run apprentice programs, taught bootcamps, and consistently shares knowledge across organizations. He has a track record of reducing technical debt via linters and environment improvements and of turning prototypes into production features that impact business metrics.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Brandeis University
English
Github Skills (15)
testing10
ruby10
rspec10
ruby-rails10
rails10
postgresql10
cicd10
api-design9
configuration-management9
email-parsing9
templater8
template-tags8
open-source8
heroku8
template-engine8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
thoughtbot/griddler
May 2014 - Oct 2015
Simplify receiving email in Rails
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:50 commits, 30 PRs, 39 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Gabriel primarily contributed to the internal workings of the Griddler gem. They refactored code to remove deprecated Rails configurations and added an adapter registry to support different email service integrations. Furthermore, they integrated the griddler-sendgrid gem and updated the project version. The user's work involved core logic improvements and configuration updates.
html-emailrailsemailrubyemail-marketing
thoughtbot/suspenders
Jul 2011 - Jun 2019
A Rails template with our standard defaults.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 29 PRs, 29 pushes in 8 years
Contributions summary:Gabriel primarily focused on improving the development experience and maintainability of the Rails template. Their commits demonstrate a focus on setting up and configuring the development environment, including database setup with PostgreSQL, test environment configuration, and CI/CD integration. The user also refactored code and added features to improve the project's functionality and developer workflow, such as implementing i18n, and turning off parameter wrapping.
ruby-on-railsherokutemplaterailsruby
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