Galen Sprout
Functional Software Engineer at Ace Talent
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolGalen Sprout is a Functional Software Engineer and founder with seven years of experience building resilient systems and teams at the intersection of product, research, and developer tooling. He blends deep functional programming expertise (Haskell, Nix, Rust) with practical full‑stack delivery—shipping cross-chain crypto clients, CI tooling, and e‑commerce automation products. As a serial founder and co‑founder of platforms like Ace Talent, E-calmmerce, and GeoCRM, he pairs product intuition with systems thinking to turn vague user problems into dependable solutions. Galen’s background in business administration and a research project on functional brain architecture give him a rare mix of leadership, human-centered design, and curiosity about cognition that informs his product work. He’s fluent in fast iteration cycles, technical mentorship, and turning developer ergonomics into measurable velocity gains. Based in Waterloo, Galen quietly focuses on making tools that let others do their best work while researching how design mirrors natural systems.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Business/Managerial Economics, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Business/Managerial Economics at Lazaridis School of Business & Economics at Wilfrid Laurier UniversityHonours Bachelor, Computer Science, 87, Honours Bachelor, Computer Science, 87 at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (11)
url-routing10
git10
obelisk10
deploying10
full-stack10
haskell10
nix9
frontend8
web-content8
webpages8
backend7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Ace-Interview-Prep/obelisk
Jul 2022 - Mar 2025
Functional reactive web and mobile applications, with batteries included.
Contributions:2 PRs, 18 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 9 months
state-managementrxjsbatteries-includedfunctional-programmingfunctional-reactive-programming
Ace-Interview-Prep/scrappy
May 2021 - Jan 2023
HTML Pattern library, concurrent task management and general webscraping utilities.
Contributions:9 releases, 91 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 8 months
javascripttask-managementwebscrapingpattern-librarypattern
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