Galen White
Senior Front-End Software Engineer at Meta
Redwood City, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGalen White is a Senior Front-End Software Engineer with nine years of experience building interactive JavaScript UIs, currently focused on front-end work at Meta. He specializes in React, React Router, and modern front-end tooling, and pairs that with backend experience in Ruby on Rails and ActiveRecord to deliver full-featured, user-focused applications. Galen has led design and implementation of internal tools, authored data pipelines and alerts for platform stability, and translates complex datasets into actionable UI and product decisions. A practiced mentor and team-builder, he combines formal coding bootcamp training roots with production-scale engineering at Meta. Unusually for an engineer, his background in professional pastry and chocolate production informs a meticulous, process-driven approach to craftsmanship and automation.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Associate in Occupational Studies, Baking and Pastry Arts, Associate in Occupational Studies, Baking and Pastry Arts at The Culinary Institute of AmericaBachelor of Arts, English Literature and Women's and Gender Studies, Bachelor of Arts, English Literature and Women's and Gender Studies at Vanderbilt University
Github Skills (19)
capstone9
backend7
ruby-on-rails5
react5
newsletter5
css5
foundation5
rails4
ruby4
medicine4
frontend4
espn3
medical2
radiology2
react-components1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
msgalenwhite/RSVP-Rails
Jun 2018 - Nov 2021
Rails app to replace paper RSVP cards
Contributions:5 PRs, 6 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 5 months
ruby-on-railsrails-apprailsrubyrsvp
msgalenwhite/Cryptozoology
Apr 2018 - Jun 2018
A Launch Academy Group project to showcase pair programming, Rails and React.
Contributions:32 PRs, 28 pushes, 27 branches in 1 month
ruby-on-railsreactrailsrubypair
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