Grant Dickie
Senior Engineering Manager at NPR
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolGrant Dickie is a Senior Engineering Manager with 15 years of experience leading teams that build highly available APIs, podcast feed delivery systems, and data pipelines. At NPR he elevates the Digital Content Network by combining APIs, AI, and SRE practices to boost local content engagement and drive multimillion-dollar revenue outcomes. He coaches and mentors six engineers across diverse stacks—from TypeScript services on ECS/Lambda to Python ETL on Google Cloud and BigQuery—while juggling roadmaps for two scrum teams. A hands-on technical leader who moved through engineering roles into management at NPR, he blends product-minded execution with platform-level reliability work. Based in Baltimore, he brings a curious, cross-disciplinary background in information science and digital humanities that informs pragmatic, audience-focused engineering decisions.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Combined English and German Studies German Language English Comparitive Literature, Combined English and German Studies German Language English Comparitive Literature at University of RichmondInformation Science, Information Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (31)
sdk-nodejs8
startup8
npr8
planning7
elasticsearch-client6
mobile-application6
nodejs6
android6
sdk6
rest6
drupal6
client-library6
jquery6
theming6
jquery-mobile6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jdickie/codefreshbot
Jan 2020 - Mar 2021
Slackbot for Codefresh
Contributions:7 PRs, 69 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 3 months
slackcodefreshslackbotslack-bot
umd-mith/TILE
Jan 2011 - Jul 2011
Contributions:427 commits in 6 months
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