Galen Rice
Software Engineer at Bank of America
Flemington, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolGalen Rice is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems, ETL pipelines, and developer tooling across finance and data-driven businesses. He moved from hands-on warehouse operations to designing a Django-based inventory system that replaced paper workflows and unlocked real-time operational insights, a practical background that informs his focus on maintainability and workflow-driven design. At Bank of America and later startups, he specialized in Python microservices, CI/CD, and re-architecting chokepoints into event-driven systems on GCP, while mentoring teams on code quality and operational best practices. He has contributed to notable open-source tooling—improving the python-amazon-mws library with new features and GitHub Actions CI—demonstrating both backend and DevOps fluency. Known for thoughtful, incremental improvements rather than flashy rewrites, he combines domain empathy with technical rigor to enable better human decisions through clearer systems and data.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
none Human Computer Interaction, none Human Computer Interaction at New Jersey Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
github-ci10
python10
apidoc10
api10
githubaction-workflow10
enums9
pytest9
rest-api8
cicd8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
devops8
html6
amazon6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
python-amazon-mws/python-amazon-mws
Feb 2020 - Dec 2022
Python wrapper for the Amazon Marketplace Web Service API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 releases, 77 reviews, 60 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Galen significantly contributed to the `python-amazon-mws` project by adding and improving core functionalities. They implemented utilities for converting feed options, added report features, and implemented new methods like `list_all_fulfillment_orders`. A major focus was on improving the development workflow through the introduction of GitHub Actions CI workflows. The user also refactored and formatted the codebase and improved the codebase, including implementing proper POST request handling.
apimarketplacepythonpython-wrapperamazon
GriceTurrble/discord-bot-template
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
A simple Discord bot template
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 77 PRs in 2 months
discord-botdiscord-pylearning-pythontemplate-project
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