Galen Hutchison
Senior Software Engineer at Beam Dental
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGalen Hutchison is a Senior Software Engineer based in Chicago with eight years of experience building full-stack web applications and indie games. He brings deep Ruby on Rails expertise (5+ years) paired with modern TypeScript/React front-end experience, currently shaping product at Beam Dental. Galen’s background in film and media production informs a design-minded approach to system architecture and developer workflows, prioritizing better practices and team processes as much as code. He also ships personal game projects under blkfinch.itch.io, demonstrating comfort across multiple languages and playful, user-focused tooling. Known for blending creative production instincts with pragmatic engineering, he focuses on improving how teams work to unlock bigger impact before a single line is written.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of New Mexico School of EngineeringBachelor of Arts (BA), Cinematography and Film/Video Production, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Cinematography and Film/Video Production at The College of Santa Fe
Github Skills (2)
windows4
wsl23
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
blkFinch/JRPG
Dec 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:31 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
blkFinch/blkfinch.github.io
Nov 2022 - Jun 2024
Contributions:96 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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