Gavin Golden
Software Engineer at Capital One
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGavin Golden is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building products across startups and fintech, currently on the engineering team at Capital One in Chicago. He founded and shipped Ponder, a cross-platform, invite-only text social app that reached 800 users with 200 DAU, and architected its serverless backend on Google Cloud with a React Native frontend. His background includes roles at Polygon.io and Ibotta, giving him strong full-stack and cloud-native experience in real-time data and consumer-facing systems. Gavin combines entrepreneurial product instincts with hands-on implementation, comfortable moving between backend infrastructure and mobile UX. He studied accounting and pursued graduate CS work at Miami University, reflecting a pragmatic blend of business and technical perspective.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Master of Science (M.S.) at Miami University
Github Skills (161)
python-client10
firebase10
firebase-authentication10
client-library10
polygon10
firebase-realtime-database10
api10
stock-data10
web-vitals10
firebase-cloud-messaging10
react-hot-toast10
react-suspense10
react-firebase-hooks10
firebase-storage10
javascript9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ponder-app/ponder-app.github.io
May 2021 - Sep 2021
Support page
Contributions:6 PRs, 199 pushes, 7 branches in 3 months
gavingolden/cracking-the-coding-interview
May 2023 - Mar 2024
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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