Galen King
Senior Product Consultant at New Zealand Trade and Enterprise
Ludlow, Vermont, United States
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Top SchoolGalen King is a Senior Product Consultant and designer with over two decades of experience crafting minimalist, purpose-driven web and print experiences and a deep specialty in Shopify dating back to 2006. He combines hands-on design and low-code development to help direct-to-consumer brands build lean, high-performance Shopify stores, and has served as a long-standing Shopify partner and Senior Solutions Engineer in Professional Services. As a Beachhead Advisor for New Zealand Trade and Enterprise he helps Kiwi brands scale on Shopify Plus, while also founding and advising multiple community-focused ventures like Kirby Lane and The Bridge Street Collective. Galen balances product work with entrepreneurship—founding companies from payments to online grocery donation platforms—and has a knack for turning practical constraints into elegant solutions. Known for starting with “why,” he prioritizes intentional simplicity, measurable value for users, and healthy work/life balance while mentoring founders and product leaders. Based in Vermont with roots in New Zealand, he brings entrepreneurial grit, design rigor, and a long memory of the web’s evolution to every project.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Waimea CollegeBachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at University of Canterbury
German, English
Stackoverflow
772reputation
67kreached
7answers
20questions
Github Skills (78)
twitter-bootstrap10
online-store10
haml10
markup-language10
markup10
shopify10
twitter9
firebase9
ecommerce9
liquid9
database8
pipeline8
auth8
postgresql8
realtime8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
lucidnz/lucid-dawn
Jun 2022 - Feb 2023
Shopify's first source available reference theme, with Online Store 2.0 features and performance built-in.
Contributions:1 PR, 11 pushes, 5 branches in 8 months
online-storeecommerceperformancebuilt-inshopify
galenking/dawn
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Shopify's first source available reference theme, with Online Store 2.0 features and performance built-in.
Contributions:5 PRs, 10 pushes, 4 branches in 11 months
online-storeecommerceperformancebuilt-inshopify
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