Gabriel Defazio is a Head of Engineering and product-minded full-stack leader with nine years of experience building React and React Native applications, serverless and Node/Express backends, and end-to-end digital products. He co-founded Diver Collective, steering technical strategy and delivery for social-justice and gig-economy clients while mentoring teams and shaping architecture. Gabriel’s non-traditional background—a BA in Liberal Arts focused on fiction and nearly a decade in marine conservation—gives him a rare blend of storytelling, design sensitivity, and domain-driven empathy that informs how he builds user-centered experiences. A Fullstack Academy fellow and lifelong autodidact, he translates complex civic and ecological problems into pragmatic software solutions and has repeatedly shipped apps that enable people to document and advocate for their communities.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Fullstack Academy
Bachelor's degree Liberal Arts and Sciences General Studies and Humanities, Bachelor's degree Liberal Arts and Sciences General Studies and Humanities at New College of Florida
Contributions:19 PRs, 52 pushes, 12 branches in 6 days
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Gabriel Defazio - Head Of Engineering at Diver Collective