Gideon Shils
Senior Software Engineer at dbt Labs
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolGideon Shils is a Senior Software Engineer in Philadelphia with 10 years of experience building scalable full-stack systems, currently contributing to dbt Cloud at dbt Labs. He has strong back-end expertise in Scala and distributed microservices, and pairs that with front-end work in TypeScript and React to deliver end-to-end features like visual ad generation and responsive media galleries. Gideon has led integrations and migrations at scale—automating onboarding for 600+ clients and syndicating media across retailer networks—while also architecting real-time streaming pipelines using Kinesis, ECS, and Redis. He contributes to developer-facing documentation for dbt Cloud’s API, ensuring clarity and polish in product docs as well as code. Known for turning complex ingestion and licensing workflows into production-ready systems, he blends pragmatic engineering with attention to developer experience.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Pittsburgh
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Github Skills (9)
api-documentation10
documentation10
technical-writing10
css9
docusaurus7
javascript7
e-mail6
ajax6
php6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dbt-labs/docs.getdbt.com
Mar 2023 - Oct 2024
The code behind docs.getdbt.com
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:20 reviews, 5 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Gideon primarily contributed to the documentation of the dbt-cloud API, focusing on updating and correcting existing documentation and adding new content. They updated the sidebars for the API documentation, ensuring proper labeling and linking. Additionally, the user updated the API documentation to ensure its consistency and correct CSS styling, making the API documentation easier to use.
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GideonShils/Deletrius
May 2018 - Mar 2021
Quickly find and delete old tweets in bulk
Contributions:65 commits, 47 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 9 months
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