Glenn Eggleton
Head Of Engineering at Yield Guild Games
Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolGlenn Eggleton is a seasoned engineering leader with 11+ years building reliable, transaction-safe distributed systems and scaling teams across gaming, Web3, and SaaS. He currently heads engineering at Yield Guild Games and runs a consultancy where he architects event-driven, DDD/CQRS-based platforms and builds AI-compatible developer experiences. Glenn combines hands-on backend work (including contributions to the Slim PHP framework) with cross-functional leadership that reduces architectural drift and speeds delivery in pre-product-market-fit, high-pressure environments. He has led cloud Kubernetes migrations that cut downtime by 95% and shipped Web3 token launch infrastructure using Vercel, GCP, and Supabase. Notable technical wins include designing cross-runtime Protobuf contracts (TypeScript + Python) to eliminate serialization errors and replacing brittle frameworks with explicit, auditable infrastructure. Based in Ontario, he pairs deep systems design expertise with a coaching mindset to lift team capabilities alongside product velocity.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc Computer Science, Bsc Computer Science at Western University
English
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Github Skills (14)
http10
php10
psr-710
testing9
slim6
e-mail6
amqp6
rabbitmq6
ssl6
laravel6
self-signed-certificate6
dependency-injection6
pdo6
mysql6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
slimphp/Slim
Apr 2015 - May 2018
Slim is a PHP micro framework that helps you quickly write simple yet powerful web applications and APIs.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 46 commits, 36 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Glenn primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Slim framework. Their commits focused on modifying the `App.php` and `Request.php` files, implementing changes to settings related to response body retrieval and PSR changes. Further commits include tests to improve code coverage and ensure the framework's functionality. The user also made code changes to the `RouteTest.php` file by refactoring code and adding tests.
micro-frameworkguzzlephp-frameworkslim-frameworksimple-yet-powerful
geggleto/Slim-Website
Jul 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:18 PRs, 29 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 3 months
phpslim-frameworkslimwebsite-framework
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