Gavin Schulz
Staff Software Engineer Tech Lead at Reddit, Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolGavin Schulz is a Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead based in San Francisco with 17 years of experience building reliable, user-focused software across startups and major platforms like Twitter and Reddit. He combines hands-on systems and back-end expertise with a detail-oriented product sensibility, consistently shipping polished user experiences and robust core libraries. At Twitter he progressed from engineering manager to senior engineer, and now leads technical efforts at Reddit, demonstrating both leadership and deep implementation chops. An active open-source contributor, Gavin has improved the Wren programming language by enhancing error handling, string/range operations, and REPL behavior—work that reflects comfort extending language runtimes and core libraries. He holds an Honours degree in Economics and Computer Science from McMaster University and is known for pragmatic problem-solving that balances elegant design with production realities.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Undergrad Honours Economics & Computer Science, Undergrad Honours Economics & Computer Science at McMaster University
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Github Skills (20)
interpreter10
wren10
scripting-language10
lang10
bytecode10
c119
c179
data-structures8
data-structure8
algorithms8
algorithm8
actor6
playframework6
filter6
functional-programming6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wren-lang/wren
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
The Wren Programming Language. Wren is a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 23 PRs, 49 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Gavin focused on enhancing the Wren programming language, primarily by improving error handling and extending core functionality. They added methods to the `String` class, implemented range subscripting for strings, and introduced a `join` method to the `Sequence` class. Furthermore, the user addressed issues within the REPL and added support for hexadecimal literals. They also modified the core library by adding a meta library that allows the interpretation of code inline.
scriptingclass-basedvirtual-machinescripting-languagebytecode
gsmaverick/Dowsing
Jul 2011 - Aug 2011
Contributions:22 commits in 18 days
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