Galen Frechette
Design & Engineering at A-LIST
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGalen Frechette is a design-focused product leader and self-taught full-stack engineer with over a decade of experience helping companies like Dropbox, Intercom, Segment, and thoughtbot ship high-impact product and growth work. He blends systems thinking and rapid iteration to tackle cross-functional problems, from leading price-change programs that generated $160M ARR to designing onboarding and activation systems that improve conversion. A generalist who moves comfortably between UX, front-end implementation, and backend integration, he has contributed to open-source projects such as houndci/hound, improving both UI and onboarding flows. Known for providing a “forest for the trees” perspective, Galen excels at organizing teams and processes to deliver fast, high-quality outcomes and has founded and consulted for startups in the San Francisco ecosystem.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Interdisciplinary Product Design and Innovation, Bachelor of Science (BS), Interdisciplinary Product Design and Innovation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
English
Github Skills (14)
ruby10
ruby-rails9
javascript9
rails9
rspec9
react8
front-end-development8
backend7
back-end-development7
code-review7
css7
reviewboard6
continuous-integration6
reviewer6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
houndci/hound
Mar 2014 - Mar 2015
Automated code review for GitHub pull requests.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 19 PRs, 81 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Galen contributed to the front-end and back-end aspects of the `houndci/hound` repository. Their work included developing UI components, such as the homepage and repo list, and implementing corresponding features to activate and deactivate repositories. They also addressed failing specs related to UI elements and updated the header layout. Furthermore, they integrated user data and onboarding features.
reacthoundrailsjavascriptautomated-code-review
frechg/frechg.github.io
Oct 2015 - Aug 2024
Contributions:107 pushes, 3 branches in 9 years
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