Glenn Walker
Chief Technology Officer at Tripism
Norwich, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGlenn Walker is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with over a decade of experience building product-led platforms for startups and high-growth companies, currently steering Tripism from POC to BETA. He blends hands-on engineering (Go, Node.js, AngularJS, MongoDB, Redis) with executive strategy—owning roadmaps, architecture, DevOps and customer-facing partnerships including American Express and Hyatt. A pragmatic builder and team-maker, he has a track record of scaling distributed and offshore teams using Agile practices while maintaining delivery quality and mentoring junior engineers. Previously he set long-term technology strategy and enterprise architecture at Bango, driving platform transformations and rapid delivery cadences. Glenn also contributes to open source, improving LinkedIn OAuth support in the popular goth Go auth library, showing attention to secure integrations and API evolution. Based in Norwich, he combines commercial savvy with a preference for rolling up his sleeves to ship production-grade systems.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computing, BSc Computing at Loughborough UniversityGCSE and A-Levels, GCSE and A-Levels at Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe
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Github Skills (17)
apidoc10
user-authentication10
authentication10
go10
linkedin10
api10
oauth10
testing9
web-framework8
app-framework8
application-framework8
developer-tools6
mgo6
bson6
google-maps6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
markbates/goth
Dec 2015 - May 2019
Package goth provides a simple, clean, and idiomatic way to write authentication packages for Go web applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & API Developer
Back-end Developer & API DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Glenn contributed to the `goth` package, focusing on improvements to the LinkedIn provider. Their work involved fixing state passing for LinkedIn authentication, updating OAuth endpoints to the latest version, and migrating the provider to use the V2 API. These changes included updating code, and modifying the LinkedIn tests to ensure functionality. The user's work directly impacted the integration and functionality of the LinkedIn authentication provider within the `goth` framework.
golangidiomaticweb-applicationsauthenticationclean
tripism/tripismapiutilities
Mar 2018 - Apr 2025
Utility package for use in API packages
Contributions:5 PRs, 48 pushes, 6 branches in 7 years 1 month
api
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